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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Theory of Value Applied to International Trade. The Exception to the Rule of Free Trade, Value in a Regime of Monopoly. The Value of Land and Other Factors of Production. The Taxation of Urban Site Values, The Higher Theory of Statistics. Index-numbers, Supplementary...
...method of a close corporation, therefore, would be deprived of a check which has proved wholesome in the past. It remains to be seen how far its positive and obvious advantages outweigh this defect. In the first place, it is to fill its own vacancies, and therefore to insure higher experience and greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution...
...among undergraduates. It is a division of the Boys' Industrial League of Boston, under the charge of twenty representative Harvard men. The object of the league is to bring working boys between the ages of eleven and twenty, who are necessarily uneducated, under the influence of educated men and higher standards. The twenty Harvard directors will work among the boys of South Boston. Club houses will be secured in which the boys will meet regularly and receive practical instruction looking to the inculcation of principles of better citizenship. The work, which will be non-partisan and non-sectarian, will begin...
...eights side by side fought up the Severn against tide and wind. Occasionally, the Annapolis crew would creep up on the Weld, and then a short spurt by the latter would again leave them them eight or ten feet behind. Throughout, the Naval Academy crew rowed several points higher than the Weld, but at no time did they lead...
With a half mile left to go and the crews almost even, the Weld eight began to raise the stroke gradually for the final spurt, rowing 35 to the minute. The navy was rowing only about one point higher and slowly fell a few feet behind again, where they remained until the last quarter of a mile was reached. Here they set in with a final determined effort to win, raising the stroke to 38 for a long, hard spurt. The Weld crew at once responded, however, by raising the stroke to 37, which proved to be much more effective...