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...best tackles of the past few years. P. Withington's place at centre will be hard to fill. There will be a number of promising men who played on the second team and also material from last fall's victorious Freshman team, which should nearly offset these losses, especially if speed rather than weight is to be a factor in the new game...
...undoubtedly need a merchant marine and a naval reserve. Subsidies, however, do not strike at the heart of the matter; they do not account for and remedy the differences in cost of constructing, operating and repairing ships under the American flag and under foreign flags. Even did subsidies offset these disadvantages, it would be at an unjustifiably enormous expense. Moreover, subsidies are a bad business and economic proportion, for they are only temporary and do not adapt themselves to changes in economic conditions, for there is no relation between subsidies and markets...
...Green, the second Yale speaker, submitted the policy which the first speaker for the affirmative had only touched upon briefly--the system of subsidies--which he said would offset the greater cost of building and operating ships here than abroad. Moreover, by making the subsidy for each ship pro- portional to the amount of cargo which it carries, American vessels will be induced to carry as much as they can and as often as they can, and to outdo foreign rivals. A system such as this is analogous to the one which the United States employed in building...
...Gill, who made the third speech for Harvard, said that the affirmative merely offset the causes for the decline of our merchant marine by governmental aid; the negative wants to remove these causes entirely. A removal of the protective tariff would accomplish this by lowering not only wages but the cost of construction and operation. This would give us an American merchant fleet, not by an enormous expenditure on subsidization but by putting the shipping industry on a sound business basis. A removal of the tariff would give us a naval reserve, for it would cause the withdrawal...
...area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University and Radcliffe College to a degree which is not offset by any benefits they confer to the municipal corporation...