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...Hart then demanded of the affirmative that some urgent and overwhelming necessity for the change be shown in view of the enormity of the problem. He then outlined the purpose of the negative as being three-fold--to show that municipal ownership is unnecessary, must inevitably be unprofitable, and will be positively injurious to the city. Municipal ownership is unnecessary since what it claims to do can be better accomplished in another way. We admit that there are some evils in the street railway system in New York, but we maintain that those which can be removed...
Yearly, said Mr. Brooks, social questions are assuming a more prominent part in American politics, and foremost of these is the struggle between the various trades unions and employers' organizations or citizens' alliances. These employers' organizations have a two-fold object: the destruction of the trades unions and the establishment of the open shop which admits union and non-union men alike. It is questionable, however, whether the open shop is beneficial to the working classes. It results in the introduction of cheap foreign labor, and the lowering of wages. The closed shop, however, is distasteful to the public, Since...
...yearly earnings. The motto of the German code is "Love your brethren;" and for that reason it is proper that the embodiment of the German ideas should be placed in the Harvard Museum of Social Ethics. The motive of the Emperor in presenting this gift was two-fold: first, to foster closer relations between German and American economists, and secondly, to promote a social sentiment between the two leading nations of the world...
...been heretofore. Therefore, I think that, in the Union, all class as well as other distinctions should be relaxed and Freshmen given the same privileges as upper classmen. No one will appreciate this more than the Freshmen themselves, and I believe that we will be recompensed a hundred fold for this, after all, trivial concession. SENIOR...
...proposed to expand the present department of education into a school of education as soon as the necessary funds can be secured. The plan in its general features has received the approval of President Eliot. This school, which is designed to carry on more adequately the present two-fold aim of the department, namely, the study of educational and the training of teachers, principals and superintendents, would like the College, the Scientific School and the Graduate School, be under the immediate charge of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition to the present work of the department, supervisors...