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...command in return for his services. It is true that in a large proportion to his qualifications, but at the same time there is much unjustified inequality in salary. A dynamical principle can be developed, in the lecturer's belief, that will govern this most interesting and vital social problem, and form a nucleus for a new science...
...however, have spread a very wrong impression of French life, by depicting almost exclusively the seamy side of society. In reality, the standard of home and personal morality in France is high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...
...direction, to be known as the Harvard Economic Studies. The first number will be the David A. wells prize essay of the current year, by W. H. Price, A. M., '02, entitled "English Patents of Monopoly, 1560-1640." This will be followed by a study of "The Lodging House Problem in Boston" by A. B. Wolfe '02. The first book in the series will be published by Houghton, Mifllin...
...will be held this evening between the regular members and a number of men who have played on University checker and whist teams. Saturday evening at 8 o'clock Mr. Edward Kemble, formerly president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, will give a smoke talk on "The Railroad Rate Problem in New England;" and on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the University Musical Clubs will give a concert...
Looking at the problem of the cultivation of world sympathy from the stand-point of a widely travelled and broadly sympathetic man like Phillips Brooks, the lecturer endeavored to point out the causes which, in modern society, tend towards and against such sympathy. "How simple it all growes as we grow older," wrote Mr. Brooks after his return from India, when his incomparable experience had finally fallen into place in the perspective of his religious thinking. "The whole of what we personally have to live and what we go out to preach is sympathy to Christ. To grow better...