Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team was that the street railway system of New York City, upon which the people are very dependent, is in the hands of a great corporation, which, while making enormous profits, is rendering very inefficient and inadequate service. A remedy is demanded and is needed. Competition can furnish no relief because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has been tried for the past 15 years and has invariably failed. Municipal ownership is the only remaining alternative, and the experience of European municipalities and our own political wisdom argue for it. It will bring about cheaper and better service...
...mercy of a gigantic monopoly, which conducts the street railways not for the public benefit, but for private profit. The service is utterly inadequate, and unnecessarily so. The companies are deriving an extortionate profit, and they constitute a prolific source of political corruption. We can expect no relief from competition because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated in the public interest. It will mean a paying investment to the city because the street railways...
...last meeting of the Corporation the Treasurer reported the receipt of $50,000 for the establishment of the Bullard Professorship of Neuro-Pathology. The gift was made by the widow of the late W. S. Bullard, East India Marchant of Boston "to record his unfailing interest in the relief of sufferers from nervous or mental disease, and his belief in benefits from future scientific research...
...work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James Loeb have been received a collection of fragments of Arretine moulds, including specimens of the ware, and three early Greek tripods. Two of these tripods will be lent for one year to-the Metropolitan Museum of New York...
...this manner is a very serious drain upon the resources of the University and obviously has its limits. In fact, the Insurance and Guaranty Fund, which has borne all the deficits of recent years, would be wiped to by another deficit, as large as that of 1903-04. Relief is to be expected, however, from the recent accession of unrestricted funds and the closer adjustment of tuition fees to the amount of instruction given...