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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baccalaureate Service | 6/17/1912 | See Source »

...dollar, but on visiting it he found that wealth was valued here for reasons different from those that prevailed in Europe. There it was regarded as cash to be spent for pleasure. Here it was prized for the power it conferred. Power to do what? To do good or harm? to magnify the possessor and crush obstacles to his will, or to promote the progress of the people? That is the question on which the destiny of our nation hangs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baccalaureate Service | 6/17/1912 | See Source »

...cockles of his heart that can be warmed by applause. Don't be afraid of what the other fellow thinks because you are enthusiastic, but show your own interest-get the ball rolling. You don't need organized cheering, but it doesn't do a bit of harm to have some leader out in front to start the applause. We do not want the old talk about Harvard indifference to revive. It will, if you don't get into the game more. OLD GRADUATE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enthusiasm at Baseball Games. | 5/25/1912 | See Source »

...mention this unfortunate incident in connection with Memorial Hall not only to call attention to almost continual acts of childishness, but also to show how these acts may, and already have, become a source of great harm to the good name of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KINDERGARTEN AT MEMORIAL HALL. | 4/1/1912 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has recently tried to avoid as much as possible that style of "reform editorial" which is so common in College publications. Yet we think it does no harm, once in a while, to touch such subjects, when a large number of undergraduates have decided views thereon. Such a topic we believe is "Fire-escapes in Yard Buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE THE CORPORATION SHOULD ACT. | 3/1/1912 | See Source »

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