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...connection with the University Extension Summer Meeting to be held at Philadelphia in July, a Summer Session of Economics will be held. The corps of lecturers includes a number of noted economists, among whom are President Andrews of Brown, Professors Hadley of Yale, Seligman of Columbia, Clark of Amherst, and Patten of the University of Pennsylvania. The lectures are intended primarily for students and teachers of economics, rather than for those desiring an elementary knowledge of the subject...
...Lamson '93 and H. S. Cummins, L. S. Harvard's representatives were C. Vrooman, Sp., E. H. Warren '95 and A. P. Stone '93. That year both Yale and Harvard wished to have judges. They were President E. B. Andrews of Brown, Professor E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia, and Hon. W. E. Barrett, speaker of the Massachusetts House. The subject was: "Resolved, That the power of railroad corporations should be further limited by national legislation." Harvard had the negative side, and the judges decided in her favor...
...choice of officers. President Eliot as presiding officer, added much to the interest of the evening, and the judges were men of prominence and well versed in the knowledge of public affairs. We are certainly grateful to the Hon. Wm. E. Barrett, President Andrews of Brown and Profes-Seligman of Columbia, for consenting to act as judges, and we may feel confident that they were perfectly fair and impartial in discharging their part. The large audience and the presence of many distinguished graduates and members of the Faculty upon the stage testified to the interest which the debate has aroused...
President Eliot presided over the debate and the judges were Pres. E. B. Andrews, of Brown University, Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia College and Hon. W. E. Barrett, Speaker of the Massachusetts House. The subject of the debate was "Resolved: - That the power of railroad corporations should be further limited by national legislation," and the disputants, for Yale, E. R. Lamson '93, F. E. Donnelly '93, H. S. Cummings L. S.; for Harvard, Carl Vrooman Sp., E. H. Warren '95, A. P. Stone '93. President Eliot spoke briefly of the inability of public men to speak forcibly...
...Prof. Seligman has consented to act in this capacity, but Prof. Hadley has declined. If another Yale man will take his place, then Prof. Taussig will serve, if not of course it will be necessary to take both men from outside colleges. Speaker Beer it, a Dartmouth man, and President Andrews of Brown have been suggested. Nothing however can be definitely stated as yet to as precisely what men will finally act as judges. The report that C. Vrooman would not speak and that J. S. Brown L. S. would take his place has no foundation...