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MEMBERS OF ADAMS HOUSE TO HEAR RIPLEY AFTER DINNER

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W. Z. Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, and nationally known authority on railroads, will be the guest of honor at dinner at Adams House this evening. After dinner he will address members of the House and their guests in the Upper Common Room on "Some Aspects of the Present Railroad Problem."

Professor Ripley has been a professor at Harvard since 1901. Since that time he has written many well-known books, including "Trusts, Pools, and Corporations", "Railway Problems", "Railrads: Rates and Regulation", and "Railroads--Finance and Organization". He was Administrator of Labor Standards in the War Department in 1918, and has been for some years an advisor to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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