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...that of railroad building and management. In Prussia, we know, their management is considered a matter of state administration, and they are at present, we believe, as a property also, vested exclusively in the State. In this country a different system prevails. Although it may be considered an open question why the State, in matter of railway communication and the telegraph, as well as in the post-office, should not assume the complete management of these channels of internal communication...
...anti-monopoly agitation of the present day, which is as yet perhaps merely incipient as a national issue, though in some localities, particularly on the Pacific coast, a question of the most lively agitation, is chiefly directed against the power and the privileges of the railroad. In another respect also the railroads are the source of profound public interest. Few matters of legislative action, either in Congress, or in the State assemblies, excite more difficulties or attract more attention than that of the regulation of railroads and the immeasurable matters connected with the railroads. So far is this the case...
...intercollegiate contests, the physical welfare of the students is vitally bound up in them. Dumb bells and pulleys are all very well in their way, but they can not- and do not- enter into the life of our athletics. The students, appreciating as they do the importance of the question, are strongly opposed to change, believing, and we think rightly, that all defects will gradually be worked out and that any inter-meddling may be productive of harm. That these are unfortunate features in the present system, no one will deny, but it would be well to ponder long before...
...course in treating of the physical recreations at college, a writer has first to mention the great college sports, foot ball, base ball, rowing, lacrosse, cricket, and so on. Many question whether these can rightly be called recreations, arguing that they require (and get) certainly more physical and not infrequently more mental exertion than the regular college duties. They argue further that the demands that such sports make on the body and mind for strength and endurance have an injurious effect. Of course there are extremes in all things, and too much time and brains spent on such recreations...
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Question: Resolved, "That the present elective system of Harvard meets the requirements of a higher education more perfectly than any other system...