Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination of the student to acquire at a university that knowledge and self-dependence which will enable him to complete his education in after years. The aim of the university...
...ability, etc. Inheritance is opposed, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money, but on actual labor, whether mental or physical. Land, labor and capital, being differently apportioned, result in an exchange, which is controlled in the interests of the few. Also competition is a foe of the socialistic...
...chapter is devoted to the consideration of some of the political questions of the day which require a knowledge of political economy, such as the silver question, the banking question, the problem of national taxation, navigation laws, paper money as a part of the circulating medium, public land system, reciprocity with Mexico and Canada, and other questions of vital interest. A table giving the amount of instruction in political economy at the principal colleges of the country in 1860 and 1870 compared with that given in 1884 is found in this chapter...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Gardner; Land Tenure and the Nationalization of Land. Sever...
...WEDNESDAY.English VI. Oral discussion (opened by Mr. Gardner; Land Tenure and the Nationalization of Land. Sever...