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...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 at all can be quickly and permanently abolished by strict regulation...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long, and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin...
...speech was an arraignment of the capitalist class for its mismanagement of society. The cave man, he said, had the crudest implements and lived under constant danger from enemies yet could get enough food to maintain himself without working all the time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food...
...question for debate, submitted by the Seniors, is: "Resolved, That if it were possible a reasonable property qualification for the exercise of the municipal franchise in the United States would be desirable." In this debate the Senior team, which will maintain the affirmative, will speak in the following order: J. W. Plaisted, A. N. Holcombe, J. W. Appel. In the rebuttals, however, Appel will speak second, and Holcombe last. R. L. Hale has been appointed alternate. The order of the Junior speakers, who have chosen to support the negative, is: R. E. Gish, A. B. Church, A. H. Elder...
...progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...