Word: ohio
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Appearing in an exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library are a number of books which constitute part of an important gift to the Harvard College Library. The gift, which was made by Phillip Hofer '21 of Cleveland, Ohio, comprises about 600 volumes illustrative of the art of printing and was made with the purpose of establishing a special department in the Library to be devoted to typography...
Joseph Rawson Collins, of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...chairman, Professor Carver, came to Harvard in 1900 from Oberlin College, Ohio, where he had been Professor of Economy for six years. Two years later he was appointed to the position which he now holds...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. last week announced that it would soon apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to absorb the Reading R. R. and the Reading's subsidiary, Central R. R. of New Jersey. Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington...
More important than the merger itself was its possible effect upon the status quo existing in the eastern railroad field. There are four main systems: Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate (Van Sweringen). Four years ago these four railroads held conferences in which the eastern railroad field was tentatively divided among them, but the negotiations were abandoned chiefly because the Pennsylvania did not believe that it had received its proper share of the short lines. Since the failure of these negotiations, no decisive merger movement has taken place. Last fortnight, however, the New York Central secured...