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...capital. It is perfectly safe to say the harm outweighed the good. Attempts in France to fund railroads degenerated into very much of the same scramble as a River and Harbor bill in this country. In the thickly populated parts of Italy, railroads were organized and built under government-control. In the poorer districts of the north, private corporations were allowed the right to build and control them. The government roads were a success, - a fact not to be accounted for by the government. The simple explanation is that the private roads encountered no expense not warranted by prospects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Hadley's Lecture. | 5/5/1887 | See Source »

...material made up for high rates. The enforcement of this clause of necessity revolutionizes many of these arrangements and causes much hardship to shippers. III. - The prohibition of pools is inexpedient, as the experience of all other countries has shown. Even Germany, where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger area. They may take such aids as a yearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Hadley's Lecture. | 4/28/1887 | See Source »

...whole, the crew fail to control themselves. They rush down on the recover and fail to get their weight right on. With hardly an exception the men settle badly at the finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '87 Crew. | 4/21/1887 | See Source »

Second, let the faculties of colleges abandon the idea of control altogether, confining themselves entirely to the scholarship of students and making no note whatever of conduct. Throw students entirely upon their own responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Discipline. | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

...contest is going on among the Catholic clergy of Baltimore and Washington as to which of the priestly orders shall have control of the new Catholic university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/19/1887 | See Source »