Word: losses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball game scheduled to be played today between the Freshmen and Volkmann School, has been cancelled, owing to the loss of several of the players of the school team. In its place a game has been arranged between two teams made up from the Freshman squad, which will be played at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon...
Several disadvantages occur from widely spread municipal ownership. Withdrawal of private capital would cause a great loss to the citizens. The actual working of governmental monopolies is slow and deadening, as the element of personal gain is entirely absent...
...favor of municipal ownership are that when municipalities manager an industry, they can regulate prices better than a private corporation, and are apt to pay more attention to the health, morality, and comfort of the community. The arguments against it are the probability of increased corruption and financial loss. In regard to ordinary industries we should encourage municipal ownership under three conditions only,--when the trade is such that it tends to become a monopoly, when the trade is one of vital importance to the community, and when a change of prices is apt to arise which could...
...some years it has seemed to many that the formal resolutions of a class were a cold and inadequate way of expressing sympathy and sorrow for the death of a Harvard undergraduate. There are others than classmates who feel such a loss, and yet shrink from the usual expression of sympathy for one reason or another. It seems to us that Harvard is not too large or too impersonal to take some notice in morning Chapel of the death of a member of the University, and if some simple and appropriate service could be arranged and his friends and classmates...
...educational institutions in the State, has been vigorously opposed by the presidents of all the large colleges, academies, and universities concerned, on the ground of the violation of the policy followed by the State in encouraging the endowment of institutions, which shall be free from taxation. Although the pecuniary loss would in some cases be small, it is easily seen that the income of colleges which possess a great number of buildings occupied by officers, would be greatly curtailed by the passage of this bill...