Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sever 11 last evening, Mr. Francis C. Lowell of the Board of Overseers spoke on the "Concentration of Responsibility in Municipal Government." His remarks were based on his observations during three years of service on the Common Council of Boston. By our constitutional form of government the power is greatly divided and divided power means divided responsibility. This division makes the national and state government very expensive and causes not a little inefficiency. The same theory of government has been carried down into the cities The mayor corresponds to the president and there are legislative bodies which have functions similar...
...property should be subject to a fair and reasonable and equal taxation. If a case of goods is manufactured in Massachusetts it has paid its dues in full to the general government and to the common wealth of Massachusetts. Every man who has worked on that case of goods has paid taxes out of his own pocket, he has paid his tax on what money he may have in the Savings Banks and upon the cottage which he owns or is trying to own. The Democrats talk a good deal about the Billion Dollar Congress, but I say a spirit...
...might fall on them and heal them. The overflow from his goodness gave his mere presence the power of healing. An overflow of somewhat the same character comes from certain men or universities or towns, giving a ring to their names that puts them at once outside of the common pale. Their goodness runs out beyond themselves to everything connected with them. In the university, the whole body of students is prevaded by the spirit of the seekers for truth who are working among them, perhaps quite unknown. Some of the true culture of these few passes out to every...
...industry of the undergraduates and to increase the quantity and improve the quality of the work done by them, to create an unusual intellectual fellowship between instructors and students, and to encourage the operation of high motives and broad considerations in the selection and pursuit of their studies in common...
...consents to go but does not. Three other classes may be added. The first is the man who refuses to go and does not go. This class includes a large number; the idle, the dissipated, the devotee of pleasure, the society men. One thing all these drones have in common is that they feel the world owes them a living. Society is a part of our rich inheritance. Isolation is froaght with dangers. Society women should not be made the end of life...