Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fogg Museum has lately received the following important accessions of original works: a marble statue of Aphrodite of fine later Greek workmanship, presented by members of the class of '95; a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, and a small painting in oil color having the characteristics of the work of Correggio, both of which are deposited as an indefinite loan by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95; and an Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century, B.C., presented by Mr. C. F. Murray, of London. These works will be all on view shortly...
Seminary of Economics. The Rise of the Oil Monopoly. Mr. G. H. Montague. University...
...essay on "The Rise of the Oil Monopoly," G. H. Montague '01 traces at length the reasons and conditions of the great growth of the Standard Oil Trust. The gist of his exposition may be given by quotations from the concluding pages of his essay. The Standard Oil Company, he says, raised itself to the dominant position by controlling the transportation of oil. The steps of its progress are clear. In the period from 1870 till 1874 it so availed itself of railway conditions and of its strategic situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched...
...inevitability of the growth of the Standard Oil Trust, the essay summarizes thus: "Given the railway and economic conditions, the progress of the Standard Oil Company is quite inevitable, since it showed at an early time bright promise of industrial efficiency. It readily acquired, after the fashion of the period, proportionate discrimination in freight rates; by getting control through discriminations of the means of transportation, it inevitably achieved monopoly...
...Concerning the conditions of the progress of the Standard Oil Company, one must say: they have no rational sanction which can decide ultimate judgment; they were simply inevitable...