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...preceding paper has sufficiently discussed the impossible limitations of the elective system, and has shown with some minuteness the grounds of their impossibility. By limitation of choice some appear to mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately...
...made by his predecessor. He then touched upon the fearful oppression to which the Irish nation had been subject to at the hands of England for 700 years. By means of statistics written upon the blackboard, he showed that England would lose nothing by surrendering all claim to the control of Ireland...
...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 to fall over unless something be done at once. He proposes to have a tax upon property which shall increase in percentage as the amount of property...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...
...Harvard Union debate takes place this evening in Sever 11, at 7.30. The question for decision is "Resolved: that our system of railroads should be placed under government control.' The regular disputants will be, affirmative, P. L. Sternbergh, '87, L. McK. Garrison, '88; negative, Blewett H. Lee. L.S., Cyril H. Burdett...