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...long trolley ride to the Boston Y. M. C. A. and the difficulties encountered in practice once on the scene, are formidable obstacles to a successful performance on the part of the squad. Comparison with Yale's magnificent Carnegie Pool is ludicrous. Other colleges, regardless of their size, recognize the importance of swimming, and possess pools of their own. Brown and Columbia Universities require a test of proficiency in the water to secure a degree. Harvard stands alone in its apathy...
...such remote scientific knowledge, as the special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...idea of making strikes illegal has been growing throughout the country during the present period of social unrest. Mr. Cummings in his railroad plan recommends its application to the railroad system, legislation now in progress in Massachusetts favors its enforcement in regard to the running of trolley lines; the injuction against the coal strike leaders is a significant sign of the Federal government's attitude...
...there a possibility of placing the Eli's behind the hills of Kingston and the Tigers somewhere out along the old-town trolley line and having the two units pot at each other with tear gas shells, spectators properly protected? Or a marksmanship meet over a ten-mile range? The possibilities, indeed, are only limited by the range of one's imagination--not to say of the guns...
Upon assembling this afternoon the troops will take trolley cars to the North Station, where they will entrain at 4.17 o'clock for Wakefield Centre. Arrived at their destination, the battalion will march to the range, a distance of two miles...