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Professor T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the University, has been offered the position of director of the newly created "Rural Organization Service" of the United States Department of Agriculture. He has applied for leave of absence from the University for the year...
...important addition to the notable series of lectures already given in the Union this year will be that by Mr. H. Roswell Bates tonight upon "The New York Underworld." Mr. Bates, by reason of his long service as director of the famous Spring Street Settlement House, in New York, is peculiarly qualified to discuss the social problems presented by the "underworld" of the metropolis. His frank and vivid descriptions of the appalling evils arising from the congested life of the tenements have interested and aroused large audiences of college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton...
Several important sociological and economic problems connected with the mining industry in this country were discussed by Mr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, in a lecture at Emerson D yesterday afternoon. Mr. Holmes suggested solutions for some of the questions regarding the control and safe operation of mines. He concluded that as the mining conditions are becoming more complex, it is now the business of the educational institutions to study the problems...
...Director Holmes showed the need for conservation of our mineral resources by stating that at the present increasing rate of consumption and waste, the United States coal supply will be exhausted within two centuries. In securing the coal supply for future generations, an important step will be the enacting of uniform laws in all states, for at present, maintained the speaker, the mining states, instead of co-operating, are engaged in strong competition...
...Joseph A. Holmes, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, will speak on "Sociological and Economic Problems in the Mining Industry" in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Holmes is a well-known geologist and lecturer and has been connected for many years with state and government geological work...