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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...private corporations are to be influenced to charge fair scale prices, the difficulty is almost insuperable. Short period franchises are urged by many and especially by English legislators, but it is questionable whether they are beneficial. In any enterprise it is almost certain that initial losses will occur, and short period franchises are not sufficiently attractive to draw capital to the work. The effect of the short period franchise in England seems to have seriously crippled the industries, and it is evident that too rigid terms demanded from operating companies paralyze their industries. A compromise must be made which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP" | 4/23/1907 | See Source »

...some little ruse. Now such tactics ought never to be introduced into college athletics. They must above all be kept clean in order to accomplish their purpose of teaching healthful manliness. A glance at the newspapers during the league baseball season will show the number of petty disputes which occur between players and umpires, too often when the player knows he is in the wrong. Besides this the professional usually has his own reputation to consider. This depends on the success of the team, and this success he is willing to attain by methods sometimes unsportsmanlike. That college athletics should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 3/8/1907 | See Source »

...whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONGFELLOW CENTENARY | 2/28/1907 | See Source »

...number of applicants were not able to secure rooms. Some men were omitted from the list for not having a bond of $400.00, and some for not signing their own names to the applications. The Committee will have a waiting list made out, so that if any vacancies occur they may be filled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD ROOMS ASSIGNED | 2/21/1907 | See Source »

Every afternoon will be given up to athletic sports, including a track meet, baseball series, and golf and tennis tournaments. The annual celebration and bonfire usually held on July 4th will occur on June 27. This celebration and all the sports will be in charge of an athletic committee, of which R. H. Oveson '05 is to be chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latest Plans for Northfield | 5/4/1906 | See Source »

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