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...likely to arise if there are a large number of workmen in the employment of the municipality, and the direct employment of municipal labor is likely to increase corruption. The extra remuneration paid to city employees must be obtained by some form of increased taxation, which will tend to benefit this privileged class of workers at the expense of the community, whereas a benefit resulting from increased taxation should revert to the public. The higher municipal wage, moreover, increases the hold upon the workman by municipal employers, which is a factor tending towards corruption...
...most important subject for discussion is the regulation of private trade. Franchises which are granted to private corporations tend to become more and more valuable and private proprietors should not reap the whole benefit. At the expiration of a short franchise, if the city takes over the ownership, the unearned increment of value is captured by the city and no difficulty whatever is experienced. When the franchise is perpetual, however, and the question arises as to how private corporations are to be influenced to charge fair scale prices, the difficulty is almost insuperable. Short period franchises are urged by many...
...appeal for the extension at Harvard of a system of instruction which has been gaining ground at Princeton,--the supply of facts by "instructors" rather than by professors; so that our "best men", with their minds rather than with their memories, might have more favorable chance to spread the benefit of their advancement. There is a good deal in the suggestion, though it might be said that the substantial facts of education are likeliest to be imparted with success to the comparatively unwilling undergraduate by men of personality and authority and by processes making no too separate division of memory...
...gathered from the title of the leading article of the issue, the second installment of a series called "Varied Outlooks" and presenting various points of view of college life. There is no reason why such expressions should not be given and received in the Advocate with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads...
...aside a sum with which the Corporation shall procure a memorial tablet to be put in the Geological section of the University Museum, or some other suitable place as may be designated by the Corporation; and second, by using the income of the balance of the fund for the benefit of the Division of Geology, in support of original research and in the publication of the results of research, under the following conditions...