Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling the adoption of the automatic coupler, proper danger signals, and other new and necessary improvements. Two thirds of our railways are trying to secure this legislation. That the Inter-State Commerce Act is not adequate for many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would be beneficial to the railways...
...furnish him with detailed accounts of expenses, for he has neither the time nor the experience in learning what are and what are not justified to verify them. He has served chiefly as a receiver of proceeds. The Graduate Treasurer now will be able to reduce expenses to a proper sum and to keep an itemized account of them...
...entire summer to work in. In case there should be no applicants the money might be devoted to the purchase of books for the Philosophy 5 literary. The gentleman who has offered the prize will also see that the men working on the subject are supplied with the proper books...
...requirements of the college, their mission is ended. This is a wrong state of affairs. On the contrary, instead of the college dictating to the schools what they shall do it should be, in a certain sense, the reverse. The schools should so educate their pupils that, when the proper time comes, they will be able easily and naturally to enter college. There should be such a constant and even growth in preparatory education that college should follow naturally after the schools and students be fitted to enter without the necessity of being strictly questioned as to their fitness. There...
After Mr. Adams had addressed a few words to the meeting, on the advantages of an Electric Club and the proper methods of running one, the old constitution was amended. The following officers were then elected; - President, P. W. Davis; vice-president G. B. Pierce; secretary and treasurer, F. E. Frothingham; librarian, E. Clark; executive committee, above officers ex- officers, J. C. D. Hitch, T. H. Soren, J. F. Vaughan...