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...matter of rights, private and State companies are about the same. No administration could allow State railroads to lose money, when private ones are making it. So State roads resort to all sorts of tricks to get traffic. As a result in Belgium and Germany roads, competing lines are brought up. In Prussia a great amount of business is gained by making exceptions to State laws. Prussian rates are lower than in upper Europe; in France and Austria, a little higher; in England, a little more; in America, rates higher still. American freight rates are 1 1-8 cents...
...sense of the liberty to enter the lecture-room at any time during the hour, is and ought to be condemned. Latches on the recitation-room doors which could be unslipped at five or ten minutes past the hour, have been suggested. We would advocate this as a last resort. But till then we believe that the sentiment of the college is high enough to enforce prompt attendance at lectures without any such school-like expedient...
...Bermudas are as fashionable a winter resort among Yale as among Harvard...
...impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried so valiantly to the fore. But, while...
...subjects for 1886-67 are: The effect of Military Conscription on the frequency and duration of wars. - The experience of the past half century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to Arbitration as a substitute...