Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...WARREN ARGUMENT.To understand the origin of railroad abuses, one must appreciate the full extent of competition. Investors cannot withdraw their money, they must make the road a success. Hence competition has become a life and death struggle, and the roads have resorted to underhand means. But the railroads themselves, for their own salvation, introduced a system of pooling which, by giving each road an assurance of just so much traffic, removed the necessity for reductions, and the evils consequent upon these reductions...
...Commerce Commission, the people have been disappointed. The railroads have refused to abide by the decisions of the commission in cases of complaints brought before them for settlement; the complainant has carried the case into the courts, has produced new evidence, and at a great expense of time and money has had the case tried with the possibility of failure in the end. Recent decisions of the courts have made it almost impossible to inforce the act, and unless its defects are remedied, it is doomed. The people have looked to this act as their great hope and will...
...however, have anything to do in deciding with what colleges our teams shall hold games or on what dates they shall be played. These questions will be left to the captains or other officers of the various teams. Still further, the Graduate Manager will receive and hold all money resulting from athletics sports and disburse or invest them for the benefit of Harvard Athletics according to his judgement but subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee. The Graduate Manager, therefore, holds fairly unlimited powers; but he is responsible to the Athletic Committee. While he will have liberal powers...
...University of Pennsylvania has offered to throw open its undergraduate course to women whenever the money necessary for this extra expense shall be forthcoming...
...prize has not as yet been finally tendered and so but little is known about it. It has been suggested that the sum should not be given until October in order to give the applicant the entire summer to work in. In case there should be no applicants the money might be devoted to the purchase of books for the Philosophy 5 literary. The gentleman who has offered the prize will also see that the men working on the subject are supplied with the proper books...