Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed men of America and the Corporation are getting control of the Government, and will bye and bye rule the United States; that we are on the verge of an awful precipice and likely...
...Hill has fought successfully distressing sickness, indifference in the preparatory schools, disorder among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Richardson and Whittemore. The Political Aspects of the Labor Problem. Sever...
...matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college, and we are glad to see that the tariff is to be considered in the same true spirit. This commercial problem is yet very far from a final solution, and an unprejudiced examination by elementary students is most necessary. Professor Thompson's "Protection to Home Industry" - which book is to be used in the course - is a masterly exposition of the protectionist theory, and all who heard his lectures here...
...leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure, as it were, play into his regular work; the latter lives for the moment only, and, when at leisure, is also literally idle. How to prevent leisure from being pure idleness is no easy problem for young men to solve. The importance and difficulty of its solution give to Mr. Lodge's discourse no slight interest and value...