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...year under Mr. Gries and the second half-year he will devote his time to field work at the Bussey Institute. In this way, with the two divisions of the course clearly separated and thoroughly treated, greater efficiency in the whole subject will be achieved and the school will maintain a position far in advance of similar institutions...
...trusts has not been due to any of these things, but rather to the practice of buying up their competitors and the willingness of these competitors for such an amalgamation. This is especially true in the case of the Tobacco Trust, whose large capital has enabled it to maintain, for a time at least, prices that are far above the competitive level...
...this Professor Durand compared with what, to him, is the only safe policy, prohibition. The term "regulation" means price regulation. If we do this, it is said, the "teeth of the Trusts will be pulled." Experience shows that large corporations like the Standard Oil have been able to maintain unfair competitive prices. If prices were regulated by the Government the power of the Trusts would be broken...
Pools, which Professor Durand defined as agreements in the scale of prices and other commercial regulations between two or more corporations, are, like the Trusts, worthy of serious thought. Although, by reason of their loose organization, they are less able to maintain monopolies and other unfair competitive methods, experience shows that the public, as a rule, has been forced to pay excessive prices for those articles on which the pools have operated...
Another innovation proposed is the establishment of an "English Review" Mr. Castle says, "My suggestion is, that the English department maintain with as little expense as possible a weekly publication in which the works of the students in English be widely printed. The students would soon enough discover their errors with their own two eyes and strive more willingly to correct them...