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...Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson, was the most vigorous assailant of the Commission's plan. He attacked not only the specific suggestions put forward by Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard for the Commission, but the general idea which it embodied. He characterized the proposal as " threatening and strange," " amounting to duress," " violently disturbing," impairing to " public welfare," " a pure abstraction of mathematics," " an insidious blow at the railway industry." As for combining strong and weak roads, he declared: " A mixture of good eggs and bad eggs always produces a bad omelette...
...hour, Commissioner Hall rose and asked that Mr. Loree confine himself to the subject and make constructive suggestions. Thereafter Mr. Loree objected that the proposed plan gave too much power to the New York Central and offered several alternatives. When his testimony was concluded Commissioner Hall asked Professor Ripley whether he cared to question Mr. Loree. " No," replied the originator of the plan, " I do not care to ask Mr. Loree any questions." Two chief difficulties were brought out at the hearing. One is the disposal of the New England roads, which, as a whole, are in poor condition. There...
...Spaulding, professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, has been appointed for next year to the Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellowship at the Harvard Law School, where he will be engaged in graduate study. Professor Spaulding graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1900 and took his law degree at Harvard three years later. The fellowship which he will hold was established in memory of the late Dean Thayer...
Sabbatical leave of absence has been granted to Professor H. W. Foote for the year 1923-24 and to Professors C. H. Grandgent and W. Z. Ripley for the second half of the same year
...clock.--C. T. Martin '24 and Alden Briggs '25 vs. W. P. Ripley '25 and Norton Barber '25; Louis Bondi '25 and W. P. Dixon '25 vs. B. Bandler '26 and E. N. Horn...