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...easiest terms flourish the least: S. M. Macvane in Har. Mo. XII, p. 2.- (b) Harvard is not injured by maintaining present standard of the A. B. degree.- (I) No considerable number is kept away by the four years course. (x) Number of undergraduates has trebled since 1860: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (2) No loss of prestige.- (c) Advatages of three years system are already secured without value of degree being lowered.- (1) Students may now enter professional schools after three years' work.- (x) Those who need to do so may now secure their degree in three years.- (d) Time...
...Lowering A. B. degree to fit three years requirement is injurious.- (a) To good scholarship.- (1) Invites sacrifice of thoroughness to mere passing of courses: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (b) To smaller colleges: Pres't Capen in report of Tufts College, 1889-90.- (1) They educate more than half of those receiving collegiate education.- (2) Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause...
...Pooling would entail great legal difficulties.- (a) Pooling is contrary to Common, Statute and Corporation Law; Redfield, "Law of Corporations"; Texas and Pac. Ry. Co.; 41 La. Ann. 970; 40 Am. and Eng. R. Cas. 475; Stanton V. Allen, 5 Den, (N. Y.) 434; N. Y. R. R. Com. Rep., 1885, p. 77.- (b) Pooling would lead to law-suits between Railroads: ibid.- (c) Pooling increases freight rates beyond statutory limits; Rorer on Inter-State Corporation...
...South: North Am. Review CLIII, 653-54 (December 1891).- (b) Corruption and fraud are the inevitable results of such control: Senate Reports 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Report of Com. on Election Frauds.- (c) Power would be centralized under Federal authority and used for the perpetuation of partisan rule: Sen. Rep. 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Rep. of Com. on Election Frauds...
...Money may be better spent. - (a) Encouragement of commerce. - (b) Better diplomatic service. - (c) Reserves of ordnance: Rep. Sec. Navy, 1894, p. 16. - (d) Adequate coast defence: Cong...