Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essay on "The Problem of Truth" is an important contribution to the subject, and is especially interesting as indicating the tendency of Professor Royce's thought toward the voluntaristic type of idealism. The remaining essays reveal the author's peculiar power to make this idealism eloquent, and to connect it with the personal problems of conduct and religion...
Professor Wyman's book contains a clear exposition, intelligible to the layman, of the legal aspects of the combination problem. He shows that the ancient principles of the common law have, after some initial uncertainty, proved sufficiently broad to render illegal the various devices resorted to for the purpose of suppressing competition...
...monopoly. He, therefore, argues for some sort of regulating commission analogous to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is a proposal favored by an increasing number of lawyers as well as by many concerned with the management of existing monopolies. Whether it would prove a wise solution of the trust problem is primarily an economic rather than a legal question. It is also a far less simple question than the lawyer seems to appreciate...
...government employees can not be held responsible for the serious strikes of the last decade, but rather a small body of men who openly declare their revolutionary sentiments and who are in a position to force a strike. Of course the ideal way to deal with the strike problem would be to get rid of these revolutionary instigators. But under the present condition of affairs such a plan would be impossible. There is, then, but one way to meet the baneful influence of this element, namely, make it understood that the government will consider a strike of postal or railroad...
...Christ in the lives of its supporters. The Church is only now beginning to realize its responsibility and opportunities, and is accomplishing much through numerous hospitals, Y. M. C. A.s and settlements. It has not, however, made itself felt as it should in regard to the really living problems of the day, and if it continues to remain inactive other agencies will take its place. The drink problem, the social evil, financial and labor problems, all have a remedy, and that obtainable only through the Church and Christ's teachings...