Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with Exeter, which was discontinued this year, a debate was arranged for the first time in several years between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen. It was held in the New Lecture Hall on April 26, on the question, "Resolved, That, if constitutional, United States shipping engaged in South American trade should be subsidized." The judges rendered a unanimous decision in favor of the Yale freshmen. This debate did much to arouse a strong interest in debating in the Freshman class, which will probably be continued in the future...
...Harvard Law Review, which has appeared recently, contains the following articles: "The Separate Estates of Non-Bankrupt Partners in the Bankruptcy of a Partnership under the Bankrupt Act of 1898," by Professor J. D. Brannan '69; "Rome and Law," by A. H. F. Lefroy; "A Phase of Accounting in Trade-Mark Cases," by G. Cunningham '87 and J. Warren...
...than a private corporation, and are apt to pay more attention to the health, morality, and comfort of the community. The arguments against it are the probability of increased corruption and financial loss. In regard to ordinary industries we should encourage municipal ownership under three conditions only,--when the trade is such that it tends to become a monopoly, when the trade is one of vital importance to the community, and when a change of prices is apt to arise which could not be foreseen at the time the franchise was granted
...most important subject for discussion is the regulation of private trade. Franchises which are granted to private corporations tend to become more and more valuable and private proprietors should not reap the whole benefit. At the expiration of a short franchise, if the city takes over the ownership, the unearned increment of value is captured by the city and no difficulty whatever is experienced. When the franchise is perpetual, however, and the question arises as to how private corporations are to be influenced to charge fair scale prices, the difficulty is almost insuperable. Short period franchises are urged by many...
...closing, Major Darwin said that municipal trade in England was not associated with either high or low taxation; and statistics proved that cities neither gain nor lose much from their municipal ventures...