Word: government
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That government ownership is no remedy for railroad abuses is shown by the equally grave abuses in govern ment departments...
...this connection, too, another matter of quite as considerable importance presents itself. Last year the class of Ninety-two drew up a set of resolutions to govern freshman intercollegiate contests, and these resolutions were presented to Yale for consideration. Their purpose was to preclude the possibility of unpleasant complication in freshman athletics, and to to assure a greater degree of fair play than has been enjoyed in the past. Ninety-two has now passed on to its sophomore year and left to Ninety-three the duty of securing the adoption and enforcerent of these resolutions, and surely a matter...
...freshman class to the number of about sixty responded to the call for a mass meeting last evening in Massachusetts Hall. The meeting was called to order by President Rantoul who stated that its object was to consider a constitution to govern Harvard-Yale freshman athletics. Mr. L. McKim Garrison, L. S., in behalf of several graduates presented the constitution. He called attention to the present unsatisfactory state of athletic contests, the constant disputes about membership of teams and the frequent indefiniteness of the results. These difficulties, he said, the constitution was intended to obviate. The freshmen then proceeded...
There will be an important meeting of the freshman class in Upper Massachusetts this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The business which will come before the meeting will be the consideration of the constitution which has been prepared by three graduates to govern the Harvard-Yale freshman contest in base ball and football. These contests as at present managed are unsatisfactory in several particulars, and the present movement is designed to remedy this. When the constitution has been acted upon by the class here it will be submitted to the Yale freshmen. It is to be hoped that every member...
Judge Cooley said that the lawful power of the state to limit the rates of transportation is now acknowledged. If the government owned the railroads it would be a comparatively simple matter to regulate rates, for it might establish a standard of rates which seemed expedient. Such action might arouse criticism, it might involve political complications, but it would simply be on the analogy of our laws relating to taxation. For over fifty years railroads were managed by corporations before any attempt was made to regulate rates. But the irresponsible and arbitrary action of corporations finally forced first the state...