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...From Economical Standpoint.- U. S. Labor Report, 1886, p. 372. (a) It relieves the State from risking public funds in the hands of public officers in manufacturing and commerce. (b) It simplifies the management of prisons and prisoners. (c) It is the most remunerative system, furnishing to the State a definite, reliable and easily estimated income...
...Howard A. Taylor, '85, has written a letter to the Boston Herald giving from a graduate's standpoint the reason for Harvard's decline in athletics, and suggesting remedies. We quote the most striking passages...
...example that the prohibitory law is useless. Mr. F. S. Stebbins, '90, spoke first on the negative. The Prohibition party has made great strides since 1884. They have gained local option and the passage of a bill authorizing instruction in public schools on the prohibition question from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Green, '89, was second on the affirmative. He said that total prohibition was impossible. There are many illicit distilleries in the South which will be sure to increase under a prohibitory law as they have increased under high license. Mr. D. C. Torrey then spoke ably for the negative...
...University of Michigan has under consideration a scheme for a course of lectures next year upon the constitutional history of the United States, as viewed from a legal standpoint. Such eminent jurists as Judge Gresham, ex-Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina, Justice Matthews, Judge Cooley, and others have been mentioned...
...fitted for the place; at the same time may not the question be asked: "Are not the services of a professional coach just as valuable in case of an orchestra as in base-ball or foot-ball?" The question is worth consideration I think. From a pecuniary standpoint the society need not hesitate a moment...