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...were be set by a mob of students who had gathered to wish success to the departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...
...free from a certain amount of drudgery, no matter what the spirit may be which prompts them to sacrifice their own pleasure. The rest of the college leave Cambridge for a week of enjoyment. These few remain for hard, conscientious work, and we hope the result of their labor will repay them for their abstinence. Certainly the college owes them a word of thanks and an expression of their appreciation...
Best general references: J. A. Rus, How the Other Half Lives; Octavia +++ Homes of the London Poor; Chas. Booth, Labor and Life in the East of London; J. B. Russel. Life in One Room; No. Am. Rev. LXXIV. 464-180 (April 1852); Scribner's, XI. 676-721 (July, 1892); Forum. V. 207-215. (April, 1887) Nichol, Statistics of Glasgow...
...Theological Seminary in 1887 by Rev. Washington Gladden, one of the preachers to the University. The book takes as its general theme the subject of property and industry under Christian law. It starts with a discussion of the "Christianization of Society" and then takes up the questions of property, labor, co-operation as advocated by Christianity, re-organization of industry, and concludes with a treatise on scientific and Christian socialism. It is written in a concise and logical style, and not so technical as to be uninteresting to the ordinary reader. The book may be found of particular value...
...Protection is not beneficial to any class.-(a) It raises prices to consumers. E. A. Atkinson, Pop. Sci. Mth. 37, Aug '90.-(b) It does not raise wages of laborers. Carlisle. E. A. Atkinson, Bost. Her. Nov. 2, '92.-(c) It hurts farmers, McClure, p. 16.-(d) Hurts community by keeping us from foreign markets, Sen. Vest. No. Amer. Rev. 155. Oct. '92.-(e) Increases cost of materials. Dem. Camp. p. 91.-(f) Does not help us against pauper labor. E. A. Atkinson Pop. Sci. Mth. 37, Aug. '90.-(g) Does not benefit the majority, Nation LV. 299.-(h) Infant...