Word: done
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...assignment committee, under the direction of F. S. Montgomery '08, since February, last year, has placed 105 men in positions where social service work could be done. Mr. C. W. Birtwell '81 has been at Phillips Brooks House each week, to consult with men who wished to do such work. He has seen about 50 men, all of whom he has placed in the positions for which they were most fitted. Of the 105 men placed at work by the committee, thirty have been assigned to teaching, nineteen to boys' clubs, eleven to visiting home libraries, nine to gymnastic classes...
...nineteenth century artificial meadows were made, ownership became precise, and hunting restrictions were enforced. The Revolution did away with collective ownership, without which it would have been impossible to supply the wants of the population. Progressive civilization is a conquest of the present, which has done away with individual ownership...
...there is no reason why the form of government, which experience has found most efficient for business enterprises, the board of directors, should not serve equally well for cities. If one should say that this is impossible and Utopian, it may be pointed out that it has already been done. In Galveston, the government of the city was placed in the hands of a commission, and this body did remarkably well, in every part of the city government, in promoting working efficiency. One thing will hasten the universal application of this principle; namely, the force, the absolute power of public...
...that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere the tone of affection will mingle with the tone of admiration...
...count in our Harvard College Library, as I have myself done, with the aid of the most varied linguist there employed, the titles of at least 100 versions from Longfellow scattered through