Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordered a reduction in the rates on milk shipments and car haulage. The Court decided that the Commission was not clothed with judicial power, and that the railroad was constitutionally entitled to reasonable profits. The question was summarized in the Nebraska Maximum Rate Case. The court held that the matter of compensation over total expense was a matter to be determined by public policy and not by fixed rates. In short, the property right of the railroad is the right to operate economically with reasonable compensation...
Justice Swayze stated that he definition of property has become a matter for the courts to decide. In the case of Inter-state carriers this is difficult. In spite of recent litigation it remains unsettled and may be forever without solution. Courts have attempted to base rate schedules on the value of the corporation's property, and according to the services rendered. On the basis of valuation and service many things have to be considered. A growing concern spends money in getting under way, establishing communications, obtaining a franchise, and in adding new appliances. It finally renders the public service...
...have often called attention to the lack of fire protection in these buildings, but the warning has gone unheeded. We understand that there has been at times some agitation toward a reform, but apparently nothing has resulted. We feel strongly that it is high time the Corporation took the matter in hand, and accomplished something...
...making the opera more often within the means of Harvard students appears in a communication signed by Henry S. Thompson '99, in the last Alumni Bulletin. Mr. Thompson's plan is "that a dozen or so musical, literary and dramatic societies now within the University take up the matter seriously with the view of raising a fund, the income of which would reserve a certain number of seats to be disposed of to members of the University at reasonable prices...
There has been a great reduction recently in the number of class lives which the committee has received. Every Senior who has not already sent his life to the committee should do so at once. This matter should not be allowed to slide, as it will cause the committee much inconvenience to hunt up the late ones in order that the book may be complete. More blanks may be obtained at Tupper's or at Holworthy 7. 1912 PHOTOGRAPHY COMMITTEE...