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...hall were a money-making enterprise, run for private profit, like an ordinary boarding house, leaving it would require no justification. But the Dining Association, which conducts the Hall, and to which every man who boards there belongs, is a co-operative association. It was founded and has been conducted as a large student partnership to supply board at cost. It has been built up and steadily improved by the efforts of public-spirited, volunteer-student officers, like the late William H. Baldwin '85 and others. It seems very unlikely that the men who are now leaving the Association when...
...closing, Matthew summarized the affirmative case. The people of New York, he said, are at the mercy of a gigantic monopoly, which conducts the street railways not for the public benefit, but for private profit. The service is utterly inadequate, and unnecessarily so. The companies are deriving an extortionate profit, and they constitute a prolific source of political corruption. We can expect no relief from competition because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated...
Under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein Mr. Heinrich Conried will present Ludwig Fulda's "Jugendfreunde" at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon at the Colonial Theatre. This will be the fifth time that Mr. Conried, entirely at his own expense and with no profit to himself, has brought his Irving Place Theatre Company here in order to devote its proceeds to the funds of the Germanic Museum. Harvard University can thus in a semi-official way contribute by this performance to the silver wedding of the German Emperor who has made such generous gifts to the University...
...celebration of the silver wedding of the German Emperor--an appropriate and graceful thing to do, especially in view of what the Emperor has done for Harvard University. Secondly, this will be the fifth time that Mr. Heinrich Conried, entirely at his own expense and with no profit whatever to him self, brings his Irving Place Theatre Company from New York to Boston in order to help thereby the cause of the Germanic Museum. And lastly, the selection of the play to be performed, Ludwig Fulda's "Jugendfreunde," is unusually happy and commendable...
...second half the University team showed improvement, and but for inaccuracy and failure to profit by Pennsylvania's many fouls, might, at least, have tied the score. The ball was in Harvard's territory much of the time, but poor work by Pennsylvania's forwards prevented a higher score...