Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...value of the service as well as its cost must enter into consideration when rates are being regulated. The granting of differentials, which make the charges on long and short hauls seem out of proportion, often still further complicate the matter. It is necessary to leave many of the questions concerning the regulation of rates to the discretion of the carrier, but the Inter-state act controls this discretion by declaring that there shall be no unjust discrimination. The differences in classification of rates which exist between different roads and which can be made uniform only gradually, and the concessions...
Harvard was beaten 8 to 5 in a seven innings game by Williams at Williamstown Saturday afternoon. The day was stormy and made good playing out of the question, but the condition of the weather does not account for the utterly reckless manner and lack of determination shown by Harvard. The men that constitute the Harvard University nine ought to understand by this time that they are expected to make at least a fair showing. What the result of a Harvard-Princeton game will be, judging from Saturday's and other games played so far this season, is too ridiculous...
...disinterested observers. Their opinion must, therefore, carry great weight with it; and it is a fact that the report of their committee has been awaited in many quarters with a great deal of interest because of the definite and trustworthy information it would certainly give on the much discussed question of the moral and intellectual earnestness of Harvard students...
...Question: "Resolved, That independence in politics should be the rule and not the exception...
...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...