Word: trusts
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President Arthur Twining Hadley h.'99, of Yale University, lectured last evening in the Living Room of the Union on "Opportunities for Political Influence." The most obvious way of going into public life, President Hadley said, is for a man to take offices to which he is elected and trust to his own powers for advancement as he would in professional or commercial life. This method has the advantage of being fairly easy, provided a man obeys the rules of the game. On the other hand, by going into politics in this way, a man subjects himself to conditions often...
...after the war, and was appointed first assistant solicitor for Boston in 1870, holding that office until his resignation in 1876. He long served as counsel for the Mexican Central Railway Company and as trustee for a number of large estates. He was a director of the New England Trust Company, the Stark Mills, Cabot Manufacturing Company, Northern Pacific Railway, and Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad...
...next number of the Law Review, to be issued January 1, contains articles by Dean Ames on "Specific Performance for and against Strangers to the Contract;" by Assistant Professor B. Wyman on, "The Law of Public Callings as a Solution of the Trust Problem;" and by Sir Frederick Pollock on "Restraint of Trade and the Merger Decision...
Professor Wyman's article is the first of a series of three, to appear in the Review. Sir Frederick Pollock will discuss in his article the meaning of restraint of trade as used at Common Law and in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and will enlarge upon his opinion that the Northern Securities Merger may be enjoined under...
...debate last evening on the question, "Resolved. That the recent acquisition by the Northern Securities Company of a Majority of the Shares in the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway Companies was a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act," was won by J. G. Brackett 3L., and A. J. Wyseman 3L., for the negative from F. H. Stinchfield 2L., and W. L. Robinson 1L., the speakers on the affirmative. The critic of the evening was Hon. F. W. Dallinger '93. The next meeting of the club will be in the Assembly Room of the Union on Thursday, December...