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...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
...congratulations to the 1912 track team for the way in which it acquitted itself on Saturday. Although beginning the season with a discouraging lack of experienced men and suffering many setbacks because of bad weather, the squad finally developed into a very strong and well-balanced team. The wide margin of victory on Saturday was the result of determined and united effort, and stands as a splendid tribute to Captain Withington and to every member of his team. To the coaches, also, great credit is due, for this year's team is one developed from inexperienced material. In the meet...
...season it tied Johns Hopkins, which barely defeated the University team, 5 to 4. Recently Hobart was defeated, 5 to 4, but the game was a practice game in which five substitutes were given try-outs. Cornell was defeated by the Crescent Club of Brooklyn, by the narrow margin of one goal, while the Crescent Club defeated Hobart very easily by the score of 11 to 0. Judging from comparative scores, then, Cornell and Harvard, both stronger than Hobart, are quite evenly matched, the odds being slightly in favor of Harvard...
...University crew, the Freshman crew and the Union Boat Club was held over the 17-8 miles course in the Basin yesterday evening at 5.30 o'clock the University crew winning by about three lengths over the Union Boat Club, which in turn led the Freshmen by a scant margin...
...Presidential straw vote taken at Harvard, when analyzed and tabulated, shows that the University contains, as always in the past 50 years with the exception of 1884, a strong preponderance of Republicans, and it discloses that the tendency is toward radical or progressive candidates. The margin of total Republican candidates over total Democratic candidates is 815, while the margin of so-called progressive candidates, without classifying them according to party...