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...unfortunate relations, so decisive action was delayed until Harvard broached the subject of a next year's game. And then came the letter, which, although it was likely to take away one prominent feature from our coming football season, was inevitable in some such form, if we were to maintain our self-respect. We repeat, our stand has not been hastily taken, nor is it representative only of the opinion of a few thoughtless undergraduates - it represents the mature consideration of many, old and young, who have the best interests of the university at heart...
...Hill began by tracing briefly the history of the public schools in the state. In 1647, he said, the colony of Massachusetts Bay decreed that towns of 100 families should maintain a grammar school. This early grammar school was not what we today would understand by a grammar school. It was a preparatory school for college, in which greater attention was given to the study of Latin and Greek grammar than that of English. The Plymouth Colony in the same year decreed that every town which contained fifty families must support a public school...
...condition of the schools was bad, and, as it was found to be exceedingly difficult for a small town to maintain a school of its own, a new legislation substituted two hundred families for the former one hundred. At this time over 200 towns in the state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly...
...year 1824 saw the lowest tide in the history of the public schools of the towns. Of the one hundred and seventy-two towns required by law to maintain schools, scarcely one hundred were complying with the law. In this year the legislature determined to exempt all towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants from the educational law, and this released 162 of the 172 towns from their obligation. The academies now became all important and the grammar school was all but extinguished...
...Trusts are not harmful. - (a) They can never maintain abnormal prices. - (1) Competition, latent or active, is always a check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...