Word: questions
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Periodically people overdo this speculation and a panic ensues. The salient feature of business today is that the monopolies are growing, and with them over-capitalization, entailing an enormous amount of speculation and lying up capital in speculative enterprises. This question of monopolies will undoubtedly come up for settlement within the next decade or two, and it is the duty of all men, whether they believe in the theory or not, to study the question, and learn as much about it as possible...
...Again, take the question of conservation of our natural resources, of preserving our forests, our water supply, our soil, and not only of preserving them, but of seeing that they are preserved for the use of our people as a whole and not exploited merely for the benefit of a few people of great wealth. It is by no means difficult to make speeches and deliver lectures on that subject, nor to hold conventions in its favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet...
...peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish in the eyes of practical men. But the minute the question arises of actually applying the principle so easily enunciated in the abstract the difficulties in the way are seen to be of the most formidable character...
...return for a moment to the Hague court, one of the most important instances of the triumph of Mr. Taft's administration over those obstacles is that supplied by the work of The Hague tribunal having brought before it the fisheries question between the United States and Great Britain. Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of War and of State, and now United States Senator from New York, has rendered many and great services to his country; and among these great services is that which he rendered last summer when in charge of the American case at The Hague. Nor was this...
...innovations which were put into effect last year changed the whole nature of the question of Senior dormitories. Formerly the matter was always under discussion, and no enthusiastic response to numerous exhortations was ever evident during the latter years of the old system. Last winter 230 men applied for rooms which would hold only 120, and for which only 138 applications were received a year previously. In response to the demand of last year's Junior class, the Corporation made improvements in Thayer and its north and middle entries are now for the first time occupied exclusively by Seniors...