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...others; but there is a great world test-tube where they have all been tried. In New Zealand every conceivable reform has been given a trial, and with more or less success. The postal service is excellent, telegraph rates are cheap and the company is efficient, there are stringent laws against corporations, there is government ownership of railroads, there is efficient factory inspection; but in spite of all this, poverty, cost of living, slums, corporations, and capital are steadily increasing...
...recent boating accident that resulted in the drowning of a Freshman emphasizes the need of more stringent rules governing the use of boats at the University boathouses. Under the rules now in vogue a student must sign a statement that he can swim at least 150 yards before he is allowed to use a boat. This is a very perfunctory duty and is thoroughly inadequate, as the recent accident shows. The ability to swim the required distance is entirely theoretical with no small percentage of those who go out on the river. To be sure one who gives his word...
...economically useless to attempt to check corporate monopolies, the government should confine its efforts to ascertaining the line beyond which they become dangerous and confining them within it by stringent legislation. Inasmuch as corporations extend their ramifications over many states, they have passed beyond the scope of state control and contrary to the opinion of many people, lie naturally under the jurisdiction of the federal government...
...lodgers, or the few private individuals who, having no connection with the College, nevertheless have the ill-fortune to live on or near Mt. Auburn street. The College authorities after a long period of inaction have suddenly roused themselves to the investigation of these complaints, and as a result stringent disciplinary measures have been visited upon certain disturbance-raisers. In other words, the time has come for this nocturnal noise to stop. The College has finally decided to make an example of certain students in order to show that it entirely disapproves of such performances...
...interesting to trace the various evidences of expurgation as we have them in the "Iliad," to show the spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...