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...rights of property. The specific plan was to prevent slavery and to limit the right of property in man. The leading principles of the Republican party are for the rights of men; secondly the principles of the nation; then sound currency; and the protective tariff for revenue; civil service reform; and finally, in a word - progress. An honest man who differs from me and our party on Tariff Reform must judge between two questions and strike a balance governing himself accordingly. If a man votes with the Democratic party, it is possible that he may attain his wish and further...
...business like way. The 50th Congress approached too near the starvation limit, when they let the lights go out in government buildings and let the army and navy officers go unpaid. I take it that there are a few sons of Harvard who are not loyal to civil service reform. The only contention on that point is whether this party or that has violated its pledges, and when you get two parties in this predicament you can know that the bone of contention is strong. Mr. Greenhalge then went on to express his trust that Harvard men would take...
...Athletic Association a week from today. Harvard's representatives will again raise the question as to the advisability of dropping the tug-of-war from the list of events contested for the Mott Haven cup. For a number of years Harvard has been consistent in her advocacy of this reform, and for some time the sentiment has been becoming general among the larger colleges against the tug-of-war. Last year Yale, Princeton and Amherst voted with Harvard to drop by event from the program, but the small colleges and Columbia defeated the motion. However, it was evident from last...
While Professor Peabody has been in Dresden he has made a careful study of German Social Reform. When he leaves Dresden he will go to Munich and to Florence where he will meet Professor Thayer and visit Palestine with him during March, returning to England in the spring...
Professor Peabody has given considerable time to the study of social reform in Germany, and February's Forum contains a long and interesting article by him on that topic. The subject of the vagrant unemployed has been of great importance in Germany. In most towns there is an anti-beggar Society, the members of which pledge themselves to give nothing to beggars. Instead of alms the tramp finds work at a station at the entrance of each town, where by chopping wood he can obtain food and lodging. But as this only served for temporary relief, the "labor-colonies" were...