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...above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...
...when private ones are making it. So State roads resort to all sorts of tricks to get traffic. As a result in Belgium and Germany roads, competing lines are brought up. In Prussia a great amount of business is gained by making exceptions to State laws. Prussian rates are lower than in upper Europe; in France and Austria, a little higher; in England, a little more; in America, rates higher still. American freight rates are 1 1-8 cents per ton per mile, and are the lowest in the world...
...each purchase, as in the lump sum returned to him at the end of the year. On the other hand, any person connected with the University is permitted to buy at the Society's store, even though not a member. Such persons will get the advantage of somewhat lower prices than ordinary retail prices, will have convenience of the store in Dane Hall, and the certainty of not being cheated as to quality and price of goods. Only members are to have the privilege of discounts with affiliated tradesmen...
Therefore the house 11 West Twenty-Second street has been secured. The building is 25 feet wide and very deep and gives four stories of rooms to be made ready for club purposes. On the lower floor there will be a dining-room and club meeting room. One room will be devoted to literary purposes, with facilities for those wishing to read or study. The rooms will be thrown open in May, with an appropriate recognition of the event. This new movement on the part of the club has been largely suggested by the number of young men coming into...
...United States took the matter in charge. After a short resume of the history of the railroads in the United States the question of "special rates" was considered. Very often in the administration of railroads it happens that additional traffic can be secured if the price of transportation is lowered and if such traffic is profitable it is perfectly proper to take this new traffic at a lower rate than that at which other traffic is received; and there can be no injustice in this, So through traffic is favored often at the expense of that between intermediate points...