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...facts were revealed, chief of which have to deal with the cost and size of the problem. Since 1901 the number of arrests for drunkenness has increased by 49,272, or 88 per cent, and the annual average increase has been 4,106 arrests per year; statistics of grave import to the state. Although it is impossible to estimate in dollars the yearly cost of inebriety to the Commonwealth, yet an idea of the expense may be obtained when it is considered that the cost arising from 63.4 per cent of all arrests and 67.6 per cent of all commitments...
...City of New York for the future development of its educational system. In New York, there are 600,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools, and 18,000 people engaged in the problem of educating them. Consequently, an inquiry into the educational system would be of immense import...
...establishment of the Seismographic Station in the Department of Geology has been of scientific and practical import. At first much difficulty was experienced by the rusting of important wires, which support the pendulum, thus making the arrangements for measuring the exact time of the earthquakes unsatisfactory. After June 1, 1909, the records proved more satisfactory. The most important shock recorded was that at Acapulco, Mexico, on July...
There are no considerations of higher import than the just relations of capital and labor. The organization of capital, which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial...
...your columns to call the attention of the students to a musical project which in the opinion of its promoters is of considerable import. The details of the undertaking cannot be set forth better than by quoting from the prospectus which is called "A Proposal for Music in American Colleges...