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...earnest and sincere in their efforts to do well, and to return the defeat of last year. When it was first proposed to hold an intercollegiate debating contest, we looked upon the plan with disfavor, and it must be confessed that the first debate did not tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman Debating Club...
...adequate navy would lessen the likelihood of war.- (a) The expense and cruelty of war would be appreciated.- (b) Foreign nations would be inspired with-(1) fear and-(2) respect...
...imitate the motion of a shell. A plan which will probably be adopted is an endless chain of paddles to quicken the circulation of the water, to revolve in the inner trough on each side of the boat by steam power. If this plan proves practicable it will greatly lessen the drudgery of practice...
...injury to his shoulder sustained in the Harvard game. Suter has wrenched his knee badly, and Baird is laid up with water on the knee. It is probable that neither Lea, Suter or Baird will be able to play in the Yale game on Nov. 23. This will materially lessen Princeton's chances of winning, which hitherto have been very good. A promising halfback to replace Baird has, however, been found in Kelly, a freshman. The coaches who will remain with the team till the Yale game are Moffatt, Janeway, Wheeler, Lewis and Fine...
...pooling system than ever before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. 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...