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...carefully defined. A railroad may be considered a property of the nature of a "going concern" as the law books put it. All the paraphanalia of a railroad the locomotives, cars, etc.- are useless except when in motion. There are two general types of railroads-the eastern and the western, the old and the new. The eastern railroad was built for the purpose of carrying traffic already waiting to be moved, while the western railroad was built for the purpose of creating traffic. The differences in the purposes of building these two types of railroads must be kept in mind...
...Western railroad stocks represented at first a certain profit to the stock holders but the actual money received did not amount to much. The stockholders of western roads have little by little grown to be eastern men, and thus it is that stockholders and the actual running and controlling powers have separated-a state of affairs which cannot fail to be disastrous. The bond holders are the real owners of western railroads...
...commodore of the Cornell navy has received an invitation to enter the Cornell crew in the annual regatta of the North western Rowing Association at Detroit next summer. It is probable that the invitation will be accedted as it will afford the Cornell crew a chance to measure strength with the Atlantas who are to row Yale...
...small but enthusiastic meeting of western men was held at 13 Matthews Saturday evening. The evening was spent in discussing various phases of the relations of Harvard college to the west. Most persons present thought that Harvard, though quite well known in a general way, in the west suffers much from various prejudices arising from ignorance, and from malicious misrepresentation by the newspapers. Many amusing stories were told of trivial pranks at Harvard swelled into monstrous crimes by western newspapers...
...Harvard college, are ignorant of the habits and manners of the east, and frequently for the first year or two feel estranged from the whole world. An organization to welcome such men to Harvard and put them at their ease can do much goed. This is what the western club purposes...