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...plans not involving the elimination of private profits have failed to diminish waterially the evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English VI. | 2/18/1895 | See Source »

Hampden Park.H. H. White has secured an option of the use of Hampden Park, at Springfield, on any or every Saturday in November for the next five years. This is merely a move of policy and implies no assurance whatever that the Harvard-Yale games will be played there in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football. | 11/23/1894 | See Source »

...pending bill does not force the system upon unwilling communities, but allows local option...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English VI. | 4/17/1894 | See Source »

...question be settled by arbitration. Yale rejected this proposal, as it was thought that the experience of former debates did not justify any change in the method of procedure. Princeton then modified her first proposal to the extent of giving twelve minutes to each side for rebuttal, with the option of giving that time to either one or two speakers. Yale would not agree to this arrangement and Princeton then decided to stop negotiations for the present year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale-Princeton Debate. | 2/12/1894 | See Source »

...definitely settled that the Yale game will be played as usual at Hampden Park, Springfield. H. H. White, Harvard's athletic manager, has secured the park this year at satisfactory terms and has also secured an option on the park for next year. Mr. White has already awarded the contract for erecting the seats, which will be built on a larger scale, so that the seatlng capacity will be increased from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Game. | 10/18/1893 | See Source »

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