Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...justice to the members of Fine Arts 3 who wish to get the most possible good from the course, it seems as though the number of men of the other sort should be reduced by some restrictive rule, such, at the very least, as making the course open only to members of the senior and junior classes...
...each paper to print everything which by even the remotest possibility may appear in the same day's issue of the rival paper, tends to cause the premature publication of matters which really need further investigation or confirmation. As a result inaccuracies sometimes occur, even though, as a rule, a paper may prefer the accuracy of an article to the chance of its being a "scoop...
Persons sending application for seats should observe the rule requiring that a large self-directed and stamped envelope shall accompany every application. Eight cents additional in stamps should also accompany every order to ensure safe return of tickets by registered letter...
...uniform but of such a character that they would be a public burden.- (d) Pooling does not reduce rates: Rept. Inter-State Com. Comm. 1889, p. 80,- (x) etc.- (i) Every reduction of rates has been in consequence of the revolt of one railway or another against the rule of the combination: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 217.- (ii) Every restoration of pools has been accompanied by an advance in rates: ibid.- (e) Pooling does not prevent discrimination.- (i) The power of pools enables them to establish monopolies by discriminating against a whole industry, instance the Standard...
...rule forbidding carriers to remain in the office beyond the time required for arranging the letters for their routes, forces those who have not time to go home, either out upon the street, or into the cellar, which is always damp and ill-ventilated and the floor of which is in rainy weather actually covered with water...