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...batting orders: HARVARD 1914. YALE 1914. Wingate, 3b. 2b., Harpham Harvey, 2b. c., Burdett Clark, c.f. s.s., Cornish Reynolds, c. r.f., Sherman Curtis, s.s. c.f., Chauncey Milholland, 1b. 1b., Ryan Bettle, r.f. 3b., Blossom Randall, l.f. l.f., Martindale Boyle, p. p., Brown...
Before taking up the subject of the day, Mr. Curtis gave a brief explanation and discussion of the recent decision in the Standard Oil case. There have been two opinions held as regards the interpretation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; one favoring a narrow view and declaring illegal all combinations in restraint of trade, the other holding a broader view and calling only unreasonable restraint of trade illegal. In the Northern Securities case the Supreme Court seemed to favor the first opinion, but in its latest decision it takes sides with those who would allow reasonable restraint. The decision...
...Sherman Pratt Parsons uC., of Detroit, Michigan, was drowned in the Charles river just below the Boylston street bridge about 2 o'clock last Saturday afternoon. Parsons had gone out from the Weld Boathouse in a compromise. According to a friend he was returning for a heavier boat, and had reached a point about twenty feet off the shore opposite the Weld Boat Club, when in attempting to turn he capsized. The boat was carried down stream by the wind, and as Parsons was a poor swimmer, he was unable to keep himself afloat until aid reached him. The body...
...corporations. There are two methods of treating corporate growth; first, to recognize the necessity of the economic change and to endeavor to regulate and control it; second, to forbid and penalize all combinations. These two methods are diametrically opposed, but Congress, in the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act, has tried to reconcile them, but without success. When the Sherman Act was passed Congress was aware that an evil existed but did not know how to cope with it. The act was therefore made very vague and the courts were required to interpret it, and by them...
Nearly all the difficulties we have to deal with in regard to interstate commerce arise from the laws which now control business. The Interstate Commerce Law of 1870 is a successful attempt to control interstate commerce by regulation: the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, on the other hand, is an attempt to control interstate commerce by preventing combinations in restraint of trade, and up to the present time it has not been successful. The United States under the law can control the agent but cannot control the interstate commerce that the agent engages in, the latter being under state...