Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only a fair share of traffic under pooling system, cannot compete with old established lines.- (2) Parallel lines are usually constructed on wild-cat schemes, with expected profit through rate-cutting, railway wars, etc.- (3) Parallel lines are detrimental to the public. (a) One line between two points can afford to give better...
...playing rules, there was no difficulty in reaching an agreement. The rule regarding a fair catch will be that the man who catches a punt can run if he first touches the ball to the ground...
...letter to Captain Brewer, but this project was vetoed by the chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee in a letter saying that he resented any interference by Harvard graduates, and that any arrangement for a game thus made would not be ratified. There the negotiations stopped. It is fair to say that the Harvard alumni interested in athletics have acted in a thoroughly handsome and conciliatory spirit and that, so far as they are concerned, there was no reason why a game should not have been arranged...
...King kicked to Gonterman, who made a fair catch on Harvard's 20 yard line. C. Brewer returned the ball with a long punt. About a half a dozen punte were made, and then C. Brewer, after receiving the ball on his own 15 yard line, made a try to get around Nolan, but the latter promptly tackled...
...entered into it with all the energy, earnestness and zest which always characterized him. In the political campaign of '92 he organized and was the president of the First Voter's Club of Wilmington, and he worked actively throughout the campaign. At the opening of the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 he was put in charge of the Harvard exhibit, and many strangers to him personally will recall the cordiality and ability which he displayed in his duties there. AT the time of his death he was studying hard in the law office of Mr. Francis Rawle, Philadelphia...