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...lack of funds, and it cannot proceed until enough money is collected to pay the several expenses necessary to completion. It was hoped that this amount would be derived from the shingles recently issued, but, while the sale of these has been steady, it has not been as rapid as was hoped for. If funds are not forth-coming to insure the machine's completion immediately, the engine will have to be returned to the factory, and the remainder of the work postponed until fall...
...dividing line, often overstepped, beyond which they cease to be beneficent and become actually dangerous and harmful. That they are a necessary outgrowth of existing economic conditions is shown by the fact that they have increased in the teeth of active competition. The chief factors in this rapid growth are the limited liability of the investors in a corporation, and the tremendous power without a corresponding responsibility which lies in the hands of the directors and managers of the corporation to control prices and thus to injure competitors...
...Parsons graduated from Columbia University in 1879, and received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission...
...Beginning with the study of medicine, a rapid assimilation of western education took place. The revolutionary ideas thus brought about made possible the peaceful restoration of the imperial dynasty in 1868. At that time an oath of five articles was sworn to by the emperor. As a result of this oath the feudal system was abolished. Owing to the leadership of the late Prince Ito this and the other reforms were not brought about without great difficulty. Their success can only be ascribed to the far-sightedness of the Emperor and to the great devotion of all his subjects...
...latter half the second team forwards were used and Chadwick replaced Smart at goal. Six minutes after the half began Brae Burn scored their only goal from a scrimmage in front of the net. Following this, the University team braced and scored three times in rapid succession...