Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...original essay in either Latin or Greek, of not less than three thousand words, on any subject chosen by the competitor. To compete a man must be a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year during the period...
President Eliot welcomed the visitors to Harvard, and spoke of what American athletes should learn from the English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same...
...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 at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads...
...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...
Atlantic: "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux Movement," by W. G. Brown '91; "Our Literature Once More: American Prose Style," by J. D. Logan '94; "The Professor's Chance," by Robert Herrick '90; "Productive Scholarship in America," by Professor Hugo Munsterberg...