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...means more to them than the book learning that they get; athletics, social pursuits and friendships all go to make up what is known as a college education. Harvard College wants to be more than an integral part of a great university; it wants to be treated as a unit, to be dealt with from a different point of view, to have its own rights and privileges, apart from the other Harvard schools, of which we are all proud, but which we hesitate to accept as composed of loyal Harvard men. So long as the Law school is made...
...fourth cause that he assigns for failure is that "the city taxpayers have lost control over the expenditures of the tax money they have paid in." "Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought...
...fellowship of humanity, and socialism of the organization of humanity. Through the international workingmen's unions, also, we begin to see, through socialism, the realization of some part of our conception of a universal society. All these great needs must be welded together into one great functionary unit of society, guided by the old motto of the monks, "Laborare est orare...
...scope of the various numbers and determining the different phases of the subject upon which greater or less stress should be placed; of selecting more than a score of authors to whom the compilation of the individual volumes has been entrusted; and of coordinating the whole into a homogeneous unit. Efforts to fuse together the handiwork of several literary craftsmen have not as a rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty...
...this difference of point of view, but in relation to the larger outside world, Professor Zueblin stands for the side seldom presented from platforms of this University. Just as undergraduates believe that the undergraduate community should be an organized unit, Professor Zueblin believes that society at large is an organized whole. Right or wrong, the view is one which, in its relation to the history that is making in this country today, must at least be considered. And a more delightful exposition of it than Professor Zueblin's it would be hard to find...