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...eventual successful operation of the roads lies in a policy of unlimited governmental control. The failure of the private system was due to the desire of the owners to realize the greatest possible amount of money out of the railroads at the expense of equipment, service, and general progress. That close oversight by the government has resulted in the reducing of rates, the free carriage of mails, and numerous other improvements, heralds the future efficiency of entire control...
...graduates; its expansion from one to a score of departments; the steady widening of the field from which it draws its students; its renunciation of a strict classical and theological training for a broad cultural education and the elective system; its gradual relaxation of Puritanical discipline; and its constant progress to a wider sphere of influence--how all this happened every Harvard man should know...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $100 and a silver medal for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English" will this year be given for a poem on the subject of "Progress." Each poem should not exceed fifty lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The prize is open only to undergraduates of Harvard College...
...work of a most interesting character and shall regret leaving it. My successor can, of course, command my assistance and services and I shall be glad to aid and co-operate at any time in the future in the promotion of Harvard's success in athletics and her progress in providing for her students an opportunity for physical education. Very truly, WILLIAM F. GARCELON...
...Garcelon read a paper on general athletics in New England, of particular interest because it dealt with a greater number of colleges and schools than any other sectional report. He found no abatement of interest in sport; an improvement in its administration, especially in the preparatory schools; and great progress everywhere in good sportsmanship...