Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October 14th a Crimson editorial criticizing Widener stated: "Undergraduates are the best bloodhounds to ferret out and solve undergraduate complaints." We regret that in its editorial of last Wednesday the Crimson assumed such a hostile attitude toward the investigations of the Monthly on a problem first broached by the Crimson itself. Since our facts as well as our motives have been attacked, we have no choice but to reply...
...weekly cut if three working hours, The Crimson may feel that this $1.75 now paid to these girls is a living wage; it is the Crimson's right to think so. The Monthly does not. The Crimson may feel that the university's traditional attitude toward organized labor and minimum wage restrictions is not "generally unsavory"; the Monthly does...
...University has pursued a policy of not so salutary neglect toward cager fledglings who troop into the Union with the hope of continuing careers started in high school debating. The enthusiasm of well attended meetings of the Union Debating Society dissipates before the University's stony refusal either to appropriate money for an adequate coaching staff for upperclassmen, or to assign Public Speaking instructors to a task essentially within their province. Thus the traditional coma of Harvard debating is due not to lack of undergraduate interest, but to official indifference...
...general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract the new capital the industry constantly needs. Rates are therefore based upon the value of the utility property involved. All methods of valuation are more or less arbitrary but they tend to run toward two extremes: 1) what it would cost to reproduce the property and 2) what the property originally cost a "prudent investor...
Liberals, led by aging Associate Justice Brandeis, currently lean toward original cost, but since the case of Smythe v. Ames in 1897 the Supreme Court has steadily upheld the principle of reproduction costs. And the utilities since 1897 have been favored by the reproduction cost theory because prices have been on the rise. But before 1897, when prices were falling, the utilities clamored for the prudent investment basis and were bitterly attacked by the late great Robert Marion La Follette and other progressives of that day for so doing...