Word: interment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Edward William Hamilton '96, of Schenectady, N. Y., prepared for Princeton at Chapius Collegiate School in New York City. In sophomore year he won first prize in oratory in Whig Hall, and in junior year he won second prize in general inter-class debate in hall and first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...
...final game for the championship of the Inter-Academic Athletic Association of Philadelphia in football was won by the Germantown Academy which defeated the Penn Charter School by a score...
...general, the rules adopted will be similar to those which governed the inter-club debate last year. That contest was made unusually interesting by the large number of speakers on each side, which gave unusual opportunity for rebuttal, as well as a full representation of the strength of the two clubs...
...Pooling is inexpedient.- (a) Pooling is of no particular advantage to the public.- (1) Pooling does not give uniform rates.- (b) The pool cannot be maintained permanently: Senate Select Comm. Report on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, p. 403.- (c) If the pool could be absolutely maintained its rates might be uniform but of such a character that they would be a public burden.- (d) Pooling does not reduce rates: Rept. Inter-State Com. Comm. 1889, p. 80,- (x) etc.- (i) Every reduction of rates has been in consequence of the revolt of one railway or another against the rule...
...road will get from the pool its alloted share of patronage whether it affords the best or the poorest service to the public.- (b) Pooling causes an artificial maintenance of rates, which stimulate the construction of parallel and competing lines: Select Senate Comm. Rept. on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, pp. 888, 1295, 127.- (c) Pools tend to increase the frequency and violence of Railway wars: Hudson, p. 232.- (i) Weak companies resort to wars to secure the privileges of combination.- (ii) Strong companies resort to war to prevent honest competition.- (d) Legalized pooling would be a special danger...