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...early times, our manufacturing towns were situated near water power. Thus many of our towns owe their positions to their nearness to waterfalls. Later with the introduction of cheap transportation and the displacement of water power by coal, manufacturing industries moved to the coal regions or commercial centers...
...grant any request signed by so large a body of students or else in refusing to grant it, to refuse on the ground that a more intimate knowledge of the matter in hand would reverse the opinion of the signers of this request. Having taken the latter course, they owe to their constituency an explanation sufficiently sound to convert the signers of the remonstrance. Should they refuse to make this explanation, the directors would prove themselves disloyal to the men who have placed them in office...
...will count, but it is not necessary. Given good football material, the coach will furnish the experience in due time; the material is the prime requisite now. We believe that men who might play ought to present themselves. We believe that, when men connect themselves with any institution, they owe it to that institution to do what they wisely can for the success of its honorable activities and of the honorable activities in Harvard athletics...
...been marred by any unfitness in the dress of those who have scrambled for the flowers. The carelessness of men in other years, however, has never been forgotten, and it is earnestly hoped that there will be no repetition of carelessness this year. The scramble requires stout garments; seniors owe it to the spectators to provide themselves with such...
...that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem. The students have strength in their position. The Corporation would not be right in persistently pursuing a do-nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement at Memorial, the Corporation owe it to them, in that case, to make clear that such arrangement is urged in order to make feasible a second hall and not simply for its own sake, leaving the second hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly to state to the directors of Memorial that...