Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...establishment of programs of studies leading to the degree of Ph. D. in Business Economics calls attention to two things: first, to the considerable demand for men who can teach such subjects as banking, accounting, railroad economics, and public utilities operation, in the various business schools of the country; and, secondly, to the emphasis which the authorities of these schools place upon the possession of the Ph. D. degree by their teachers. In the eight years of its existence, the Graduate School of Business Administration has turned out about four hundred men, less than a quarter of them graduates...
When the head of the Main Body reached the railroad crossing at Concord avenue, near Bay State road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need...
...some concessions. According to the New York Herald, "A force has been unleashed which will be difficult to control. The trend is unmistakably in the direction of submission by all invested capital to the workingman or to an industrial upheaval many times more extensive and disastrous than the great railroad and other strikes...
...Lamoure, of the Boston and Maine Railroad, Boston, will speak on "Solicitation of Traffic" in Lawrence 18 this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. This will be Mr. Lamoure's third lecture in a series on railroads and railroad problems given under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. The next lecture will be by Mr. G. L. Graham, whose topic will be "The Effect of Lake Rates and the Panama Canal on New England Industries." These lectures are open to all members of the University...
...George Stuart Patterson, general solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, will speak on "Governmental Regulation of Common Carriers" in University 17 tonight at 8 o'clock...