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Then he proceeded to do things. He divided the affairs of the Brotherhood into Eastern, Western and Southern groups and made separate employment agreements with each. He built a 14-story office building in Cleveland for the Brotherhood. The building paid for itself in ten years. He established compulsory life insurance for all engineers. When he went into office, the Brotherhood had 38,000 members with $69,000,000 worth of insurance. Today, it has 90,000 members with $200,000,000 worth of insurance. In 1916, he helped to secure the passage of the Adamson Law for railway labor...
...parallel development less noticeable to the casual observer but far more important to the wellbeing of the College. It is no exaggeration to say that educators all over the country are watching Harvard's great experiment with the Oxford tutorial system. A corps of capable tutors is being built up, slowly as is necessary to insure permanence; and most auspicious of all signs, undergraduates are heartily interested and are wholly...
Robert Ridgway: A mighty engineer who controls the transit of a huge metropolis, and has built tunnel and aqueduct under deep rivers...
...Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon the Prussian troops with his long telescope. An admirer, one M. Meret, presented him with a country place at Juvisy, where he built an observatory, passed his time peering at the planet Mars and collecting ghost stories. Never a great scientist, he was still mumbling about the probable inhabitability of Mars while his colleagues were concerned with the atomic structures of stars not yet named; but he exploited with marvelous eloquence the romance...
...this is true, not only of opinions about public matters, but also about what is right, just, honorable and generous in personal conduct. As a rule, indeed, public morals are built upon private morals, and a stable commonwealth does not stand upon an unsound moral foundation. Let us repeat, therefore, that morals, public and private, depend upon opinion. The morality of a people is sustained by a general opinion of its rightfulness, and a general condemnation of its violation. All men sometimes do, and a few men often do what they know to be wrong; but even so they usually...