Word: existing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time has come for the undergraduates, not the few but the many, to get some good out of athletics. Sports should be more generally pursued for the good they can give, for the exercise, the physical development. The great mass of American collegians get nothing out of athletics. They exist for the few; for the Jews and not for the Gentiles. Is not the motto, the greatest good for the greatest number, as applicable to collegians as to the general public? A hundred men or so are engaged in the various sports. But how about the other nineteen hundred...
...school and theatre, and the mistaken point of view of the clergy and the public have caused the great lack of permanent dramatic literature. The English people are either amusement seeking, moderately indifferent or religiously hos- tile to the stage. In spite of all opposition the drama will always exist. Why, then, is it not better to enlist the energy of the cultured for its benefits? What antiquarian Oxford ignores. Harvard, through the work of Professor Baker, is teaching, namely, a true conception of a most influential...
...Harvard" prose and verse. This is admirable, or at least it would be admirable were it not that the two most prominent articles--"The Philosophy of Horatio" and "A Fake Play"--distinctly overemphasize the aspect of College life that is least to our credit. Drunkennes and vice unquestionably exist but it is a pity to have the idea of them rubbed in through the columns of the undergraduate papers. Both stories are well written; but they lead the uniformed reader to suppose that Harvard men spend their lives in an atmosphere, not morely of hilarity, but of reckless dissipation...
...fact of over-capitalization was very easily exaggerated and that much of the cry against watered stock is really against capital represented by the losses which the companies have incurred in experiments and improvements. From there the speaker went on to show that even though some over-capitalization did exist, municipal ownership was not the remedy. He showed that in Massachusetts over-capitalization was prevented by statute and he argued that the same thing could be done in New York...
...conclusion the speaker established the fact that the effective remedy for the evils existing in New York was not municipal ownership but regulation. He showed that statutes already exist which give the necessary powers for regulation, and he called attention to the fact that there have been concrete examples of successful regulation even in New York City...