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...question for the debate to take place on March 4, 1886 will be selected at the meeting to-night from the three questions here submitted: 1, Resolved, That the Safety of the Country urgently demands the Repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill; 2, Resolved, That the Knights of Labor deserve the Support of the Working Classes; 3, Resolved, That the Labor Panics in England call for Enforced, Agrarian Subdivisions. Further notice of to night's meeting given in another column...
...first number of The Arbitrator, a journal published by the advocates of arbitration as a means of settling labor troubles, has made its appearance. It is an able paper, and will do much good in the novel field it has chosen...
...parts. While the exercise is within any reasonable bounds, the heart beats increase some twenty or thirty a minute over what they are when the person is at rest; in spite of this increase in number, the character of the beats is regular and even. When the labor is excessive the heart will become tired, the pulsations very rapid, but feeble, and unless exertion is brought to an end mischief will follow. Disease of the blood vessel is, however, of rare occurrence in early life, and any young man who is so affected should never for one instant think...
...would offer analogous opportunities for the development of a man's concentrated energies in a direction where all hopes of gaining money must be thrown aside. Harvard abounds in rich young men whose eyes ought to be opened to the possibilities of entering upon a course of purely theoretical labor, in which they may not only find personal satisfaction, but also gain the gratitude and the esteem of their more unfortunate brother laborers, whose energies are wasted either in the practice of their profession, or in teaching to numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once...
What has become of the movement which Mr. Brooks' lectures on Socialism were to have started. Mr. Brooks ended, it will be remembered by urging Harvard students to take some such interest in the labor question as is taken by university men in England and Germany. That the present is as opportune a time as any for stimulating such an interest, can be seen by any one who has read the daily papers for the past week. Yet so far as accomplishing anything in this direction goes, Mr. Brooks' lectures seem to have fallen flat...