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...United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed men of America and the Corporation are getting control of the Government, and will bye and bye rule the United States; that we are on the verge of an awful precipice and likely...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...
...Problem. Shall Avarice Rule. Anonymous. J. A. Bliss, New York...
...Hill has fought successfully distressing sickness, indifference in the preparatory schools, disorder among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Richardson and Whittemore. The Political Aspects of the Labor Problem. Sever...