Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty of Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope...
...line "they're my hope cradles," of Miss Cowl. There is perhaps little more for soft epigrams like "Agenius? Someone who's always searching for something", which are five percent humor and ninety-five percent Jane Cowl. But there is something magical in the transformation of earned power that follows upon Harlequin's cool comfort of "That's life" to deserted Columbine. Miss Cowl turns her head suddenly up, and cries: "It's not; it's hundreds of little deaths...
...Police Power", Professor Holcombe, New Lecture Hall...
Yesterday afternoon in the Harvard Liberal Club, Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the socialist party in the recent election, and Professor Philip Cabot of the Harvard Business School were the principals in a stirring debate on the proposition: "Resolved, That power resources should be publicly owned." An audience of over 100 people crowded the living room of the Liberal Club, and many had to be turned away, L. B. Cohen '32, chairman of the meeting, opened the discussion by apologizing for the inadequacy of the accommodations and explaining that the authorities had not permitted the use of a bigger hall...
...that two years ago $30,000 were spent here at Harvard in an attempt to induce Harvard professors to spread propaganda for public utilities." As an illustration of the exhorbitance of the rates charged by United States monopolies, Mr. Thomas showed that the rates in Ontario where the electric power concern is owned and operated by the government are 300 per cent lower than the rates in New York, both companies using Niagara Falls for their power...