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Best general references: Nation LX, 67 (Jan. 24, 1895); Public Opinion XVIII, 59, 65 (Jan. 17, 1895), 101 (Jan. 31, 1895); Forum XX, 1, 211 (Sept., Oct., 1895), Louis Windmuller, On the Resuscitation of the Blue Laws; Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition, Articles Excise and Sunday-closing; New York Evening Post, Sept. 19, 1895 (Interview with Dr. Parkhurst); New York Evening Post, Sept. 24, 1895 (Speech of Mr. Perry Belmont); Editorials in N. Y. dailies Sept. 19-28, and in the Boston Herald Sept...
...present law is difficult of execution.- (a) Against the wishes of the majority of the New York voters: Forum XX, 211 (Oct., 1895); Nat. LX, 67; Boston Herald, Sept. 29, Editorial.- (b) No police equal to the task: Nat. LX. 67; Forum XX, 211.- (c) Needless expense of time and money...
...municipal reform: Dr. Parkhurst in New York Evening Post, Sept. 19.- (a) Arouses the lower classes against sound government: Nat. XL, 67.- (b) Throws the vote of the drinking population into the bands of Tammany, Nat. XL, 67.- (c) The law was passed for purposes of blackmail: Roosevelt, in Forum XX, 1.- (d) Destroys public respect...
...represented by a few thousand dollars; and that railroads in the south represent the larger part of the balance. A college of a different environment and condition is Rochester University, New York. Of its $1,200,000, $335,000 are railroad bonds. [President Charles F. Thwing in June Forum...
...undesirable. - (a) At best, co-education in college open to positive objections. - (1) Lack of refinement and oversight in social matters, e.g., Oberlin: Forum, 17, p. 582. - (2) Girls thrown into critical atmosphere, e. g., they are made the subject of unpleasant comment by young men: Educational R., vol. 4, p. 518. - (3) Practically harder for girls than for men. - (b) These objections peculiarly forcible at Harvard. - (1) Policy is to allow greatest freedom in personal matters...