Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able to undo the shrewd use, by Mr. Rockefeller and his associates, of peculiar opportunities, presented from 1865 till 1877 in the railway and refining...
...Freshmen rowed today in the following order: Stroke, Phillips; 7, Lindsay; 6, Thanisch; 5, Parmelee; 4, Sanger; 3, Meier; 2, Minturn; bow, Dillingham. Their work was still better than on Saturday, but the crew is not yet as fast as the Yale freshmen. A Freshman four went out in the following order: Stroke, Foster; 3, Lloyd; 2, Clapp; bow, Cruger...
...Advocate still keeps up the custom of frequently printing stories signed only with the initials of the authors. If a story is of such nature that no name should be signed to it, it should not be printed. Otherwise the full names of the authors should be given instead of the present initials, which puzzle but do not really disguise...
...opportunities for work on every plane; it would give us also the dignity and the repose, the unity and comradeship of a philosophical academy. It would give us the inspiration resulting from the mutual assistance of the different parts of philosophy, which in spite of their apparent separation are still today parts of one philosophy only. The University has somewhat lost sight of the unity of all philosophical subjects, and has above all forgotten that this united philosophy, is more than one science among other sciences, that it is indeed the central science which alone has the power to give...
...those Harvard men who fell in the Civil War should be chosen to deliver an address commemorative of their deeds, it is, after all, fitting that the tribute from Harvard to Harvard men should come directly from the University,--in this and in succeeding years from men who are still a part of Harvard undergraduate life...