Word: railroaded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nathaniel Thayer '71 died at his home, 22 Fairfield street, Boston, yesterday morning after an illness of nearly two years. For many years Mr. Thayer was prominent in railroad and financial circles, national as well as local...
...born in Boston, June 13, 1851. After graduating from Harvard in 1871 he travelled abroad for two years, returning in 1874 to associate in business with his father, who five years previously had given Thayer Hall to the College. He was made president of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Company in 1876 and since then has been the guiding power in numerous banks, railroads and business concerns. He was also a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1877 and again in 1879 he was a Democratic candidate for the legislature...
...following appointments of lecturers, to take effect September 1, 1911, have been made in the Business School: on Industrial Organization. J. N. Gunn, C. C. Lane, '04; on Commercial Organization. A. W. Shaw; on Railroad Accounting, W. J. Hobbs; on Insurance, R. B. Dow, W. B. Medlicott: on Investment, J. F. Moors '83; on The Theory and Practice of Rate-Making, E. J. Rich...
...regulation. The question which confronts the United States today is merely this: shall we try to work back towards perfect competition, or shall we accept the other alternative and regulate competition and confront the problem of fixing prices for all the most important commodities in the same manner as railroad rates, gas rates, and the like...
...course of the subway from the bridge to Harvard square has very few curves, it is possible to run at practically railroad speed for the whole distance. The running time between Harvard square and Park street has been set at eight minutes and it is possible that this will be reduced to seven when the cars are started...