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...Competition is excessively injurious under the lease system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Morals, all are herded together. - (2) All pretense of reform is given up. - (b) To outside competitors. - (1) Odium of system makes labor cheap. - (2) Nature of labor concentrates it on certain occupations, e.g., mining. - Tennessee troubles. - (c) To the peace of the State. - Ibid...
...Century during the coming year. Mrs. Gere draws an exquisite comparison between Burns and Mozart which every lover of poetry and music should read. Says Mrs. Gere: "The genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there is a certain kinship in the spirit that underlies the pathetic ballads of the one and the great tone-poems of the other. It is the spirit of love and humor, the intense humanity, the irrepressible sympathy with all living things that has brought them so near to the heart of the world. Both...
Another concerns itself with The Mill Song. A certain king possessed a magical mill which would turn out anything its owner desired. He commanded the two giant maiden miller to grind out Peace, Happiness and Prosperity, which they did day and night without intermission. Finally he was killed by another king who took possession of the mill and ordered an unlimited amount of salt to be ground out, which he packed in such large quantities in a ship that it sank, and the salt, dissolving in the sea, gave it its salty character...
...Wellesley seniors have been forbidden by the Faculty to publish the annual Legenda owing to certain objectionable "roasts" in the last number. In place of this it is rumored that they will start a college monthly...
...Louis Dyer, formerly assistant professor of Greek at Harvard, has just written a book entitled "Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated...