Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...office will be in the charge of two clerks, appointed and paid by the government, under regular civil service rules. There will be as many deliveries as at the central station and the office hours will be from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. week days and from 12 m. until 1.30 p.m. Sundays...
Wilbur Morse '00 was graduated in 1894 from the Central High School in Philadelphia. The next year he spent at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a prominent member of the Philomathean Society. In the fall of 1895 he entered Harvard and was on the Freshman team which defeated Yale '99. After a year's absence in Philadelphia, Morse joined the the class of 1900. He has since been on three University debating teams, in the Yale debate of 1897, and in the Princeton debates of April and December 1899. For his work in the trials for the debate...
...class will assemble at Utica, N. Y., on July 5 for work in the vicinity of Utica and Catskill, two weeks being devoted to each of these regions. The main object of the work in Central New York is the study of the New York palaezoic formations. The succession of rocks will be studied, thickness measured, and the characteristic fossils collected. Training will be given in mapping and in collecting rocks and fossils. The Appalachian structure which is here seen affords additional problems for interpretation and more exact practice in mapping. There will be opportunity for study of a variety...
...managing all the different companies, but dividends are paid out on combined profits. Much anti-trust legislation, however, led to the formation of the typical form of trust--the single corporation. The form of Trust which is now in the ascendant is modelled much after the old Trust. A central company is organized to buy up all stock of all the corporations. Technically the individual boards of directors manage their own affairs, but in reality, the directors of the central company have the power. In all previous forms of the Trust, competition between the individual companies has been stopped...
Since September the collections at the Gray Herbarium have been increased to the extent of several thousand specimens from various parts of the world. Among the acquisitions is a collection of Central American plants, 875 in number, presented by Captain J. Donnell Smith of Baltimore. Another, consisting of some 900 specimens, has come from Porto Rico. The United States Department of Agriculture has sent 621 specimens of American grasses; the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna, 877 Austrian plants, and the New York Botanical Garden, 561 plants from Idaho and Montana. In addition, 852 specimens from the Galapagos Islands...