Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercise without which no childhood is complete. But in childhood snowballs did not cost ten cents apiece. One evening last winter cost a class now in the University something like a thousand dollars for broken windows. Assume that five hundred men went into action, each throwing twenty snowballs. The rate per snowball comes to ten cents...
...difficulties, though they may appear complicated, are clear in their fundamentals to any layman. Prominent authorities are proposing two points of attack: elimination of the differential, and consolidation of the railroad lines. The former is a matter of freight rates on railroads entering Boston as compared to those entering other ports. Under the differential, Boston's rates are fixed considerably higher than those of Philadelphia and Baltimore. When the differential was inaugurated, it was counteracted by a sea differential making ocean rates from Boston correspondingly less. Now the latter has been removed, and the rate from all American ports...
Consolidation, no doubt, is the eventual solution. Contrary to the beliefs of many, the war proved that a certain amount of unified control was beneficial to the railroads. But more fundamental than any plan of reorganization, and a necessary preliminary to such a plan, is an adjustment of the rate difficulty. As long as Boston's port is stagnant, a large source of business for New England's railroads remains unproductive. It has been pointed out especially that Boston is the natural outlet for a large share of the Canadian trade. But this trade, as well as most of that...
Beyond the immediate advantage from this innovation can be seen a greater end. The present quarters of the Business School are cramped and antiquated. If the School continues to expand at its present rapid rate, both in quality and in range, more adequate quarters will become indispensable...
...shirker who make it necessary for colleges to maintain an array of deans and other disciplinary officials. There is something to be said, therefore, for the doctrine that the better a student's rank in his studies the less he ought to be charged for his instruction. At any rate the Yale differential is a step in that direction. --Boston Herald...