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...state interference, yet they have fallen into ideas that border very closely on state control of railroads and other public enterprises. English professors and writers all show a tendency to throw off the old laissez-faire conception and take up a mild form of socialism. All men cannot help themselves; state help is necessary. The old state of society is inadequate to the new. The invention of steam and improved machinery has changed the relations between employer and employee. The interference of the state was necessary in order to adjust these new relations which were crushing the working...
...base-ball championship last year, it does not stand to reason that our hopes are forever blasted. On the contrary, we have every reason to be hopeful for success this year. We understand that '89 will furnish valuable material for the nine, which will help fill up the gap which the departure of '85 has made...
...fires. Thousands of people were left homeless. In 1851 and 1856 were formed the two famous vigilance committees. The committee of 1856 was highly organized. The committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from this early history of California, a lesson of the dangers which threaten a Republican form of government. Every step an individual makes away from our social organism is a losing and ruinous...
...looking at the poetry of this issue, one cannot help wishing that the ballad by Mr. Houghton had been inspired by a more optimistic view. The beauty of these verses is not heightened, at all events, by the gloomy theme. The other poems are graceful, but on the whole not characterized by forcible thought. The ideal portrayed by Mr. Fullerton is applicable to poetry as well as to novels...
...authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and makes them firmer and finer than they could have become if directed by himself alone." The substance of the elective system is given in a single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study...