Word: progress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...early yesterday morning. Although he had not been well for some days previous he had persisted in his college work until last Friday night before reporting his illness at the college office. When the medical visitor called he found Dr. Hildreth in attendance, but the disease had made such progress that, in spite of the efforts of five physicians, it terminated fatally in less than two days. An autopsy was held, and death was found to have been due to septic typhoid fever...
...large part of the new fence which is being built around the Yard at a cost of about $70,000 will be completed by Commencement Day. Delay in securing the iron-work has hindered the progress of the fence during the last few weeks, as the brick and stone work has been ready for some time. When the sections that have already been assigned to classes have been completed, the Yard will be surrounded from the Meyer Gate, around Massachusetts Avenue to Quincy street, with the exception of a small part behind Holworthy. The individuality of the sections given...
...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 at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured...
...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...