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...game started with a sudden attack upon the Engineers's territory and it was several minutes before the Technology skaters were able to get it under control. Taylor, the speedy M. I. T. left wing, retaliated with several individual attacks upon the Freshman cage. For ten minutes neither team was able to manoeuver into an advantageous position, but at last the yearling defence broke and the Engineers threatened their goal with several well directed shots which were stopped only by the alertness of Cantillon. A few minutes later, however, MacNell recovered the puck from a scramble and made the first...
...grouping of unified lines, gaining new strength from the combination, with the necessary competition maintained by leaving the Boston and Albany and the Grand Trunk systems in their present status. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the scheme is the proposal that the state governments have a part-control in the new systems; it has even been suggested that the states assume full financial responsibility...
Consolidation, no doubt, is the eventual solution. Contrary to the beliefs of many, the war proved that a certain amount of unified control was beneficial to the railroads. But more fundamental than any plan of reorganization, and a necessary preliminary to such a plan, is an adjustment of the rate difficulty. As long as Boston's port is stagnant, a large source of business for New England's railroads remains unproductive. It has been pointed out especially that Boston is the natural outlet for a large share of the Canadian trade. But this trade, as well as most of that...
...movie can accomplish such wonders in an evil way, its potentialities for virtue must be equal. It is undeniably the most direct means of appealing to the people, throughout the country. Professor Baker has been quoted as saying that if he could be given absolute control of the moving-picture industry and its out-let for three years, he could raise the country's intelligence ten percent, and its morals in proportion. Whether he is right or not would depend on his method of atback. Obviously, if the movie lost its interest and became purely a moralizing agent, it would...
Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...