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...legislation substituted two hundred families for the former one hundred. At this time over 200 towns in the state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down...
Yale's third representative was F. E. Richardson, who contested the arguments usually advanced in favor of the six year term. He maintained that a capable man and an incapable man should not have the same length of services and that civil service reform tends to lessen the President's power of putting into office men who will support him for re-election. He showed that the depression in business usually advanced as an argument against frequent elections, was greatly exaggerated and that business is more stable in America during these periods than in England during its elections...
...Shaler, is a member of the Highway Commission. The chief aim of these inquiries has been to determine the qualities which constitute fitness for road making. This will be of value to the Commission in enabling them to utilize the road material near at hand, and thus lessen the cost of construction. As this phase of the work progresses maps are made showing the location of all deposits suitable for road building...
...discretion of Harvard students and of her Athletic Committee to do what is best for the preservation of the sport, even through the outlook is discouraging. Walter Camp has expressed his belief that curtailment of summer training and a reduction of the time spent in secret practice will materially lessen present evils. He hopes the University Athletic Club will take up the matter, and that the conference they may call will result, with the help of Harvard, Pennsylvania and Princeton in the modification of all objectionable features which cropped out at Springfield...
...order to lessen the excessive notoriety and bring the game within the proper limits of a college sport, they recommend (1) That all games be played upon the home grounds of the competitors; (2) That the sale of tickets be limited to graduates and undergraduates for themselves and their guests; (3) That all efforts on the part of the press to give undue publicity to the game throughout the season be discouraged...