Word: rising
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...rise of class debating clubs and the large attendance in the various College courses, directly or indirectly connected with debating, soon made it evident that there was not room for an active debating club open to the different classes. It was then that the University Debating Club took on the purely administrative character that it has since had. For the last three years it has confined itself to arranging all University and class club debates, including those with outside organizations, providing for the appointment of judges and distribution of prizes. Without directing the details of the class clubs the University...
Seminary of Economics. The Rise of the Oil Monopoly, Mr. G. H. Montague. University...
Seminary of Economics. The Rise of the Oil Monopoly. Mr. G. H. Montague. University...
...essay on "The Rise of the Oil Monopoly," G. H. Montague '01 traces at length the reasons and conditions of the great growth of the Standard Oil Trust. The gist of his exposition may be given by quotations from the concluding pages of his essay. The Standard Oil Company, he says, raised itself to the dominant position by controlling the transportation of oil. The steps of its progress are clear. In the period from 1870 till 1874 it so availed itself of railway conditions and of its strategic situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched...
...Reading of Bowdoin Prize Essays. The Rise of the Oil Monopoly. Mr. G. H. Montague--Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp. Mr. R. M. Green. Harvard...