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...City Government refused to consider the matter on the ground of expense. At present, the Cambridge Park Commission is heartily in favor of the scheme, not only as a beautifying improvement to the city, but as a source of increased income which would result from the higher taxes along the boulevard...
...City has, roughly speaking, half the voters in the Empire State. This is their home environment. Physically and morally, it "makes all for unrighteousness." Is it a square deal for the republic? One young man, just out of college, answered that question for himself, upon the evidence before him, along in the eighties, and straightway started an investigation of slavery in the tenement cigar-making industry. The action he brought about was labeled unconstitutional then--if I remember right--the fashion in labels has changed since under compulsion of accumulated evidence--but he learned something he has never forgotten...
...prime interest. No man planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing in political conceptions, with religious faiths as divergent as Chrisianity admits, scattered along two thousand miles of seacoast, with rivalries and animosities unrestrained...
...poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics of a similar kind "River Wind" compares not unfavorably...
...University hockey team defeated the Brae Burn Hockey Club at Brae Burn, West Newton, Saturday afternoon by a score of 3 to 0. The ice was unfavorable for fast playing, as there were so many holes and so much water collected along the sides and ends of the rink that the play had to be frequently stopped. This constant interruption made the game appear slow and listless...