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...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Nassau W. Senior and the Reform of the English Poor Laws." Mr. A. B. Balcom. Upper Dane...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...York where it was my duty to expose scandal. Scandal being exposed, the city was aroused to investigation. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner. He tried to compel the police to enforce all laws equally. Trouble arose at once. Leading citizens of New York came with protests and the reform movement was checked...
...city might share in the spoils. Much the same conditions were found in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Chicago. Opposition was the same in all cases. Opposition came from the slums. It came from the top of the city. It also came from the state government, back of the city. All reforms were practically stopped by this opposition. Then, I mean about ten years ago, we were all talking about municipal reform. We thought the state governments and the national governments were all right. I dropped the cities and took up the state. I went back to St. Louis because Folk could...
...Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Ohio,--they were all alike. There was a reform movement in Wisconsin in which LaFollette, its leader, was opposed both by the city and by the United States government. Against him in the control of his party was the federal machine made by appointments of the United States...