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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year 1824 saw the lowest tide in the history of the public schools of the towns. Of the one hundred and seventy-two towns required by law to maintain schools, scarcely one hundred were complying with the law. In this year the legislature determined to exempt all towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants from the educational law, and this released 162 of the 172 towns from their obligation. The academies now became all important and the grammar school was all but extinguished...
...last scene of the poets' journey through Hell is the most horrible. After passing through the lowest circles, they come upon a frozen pool, in which incased in the ice are the traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...
...politics: Nation, VIII, 88, X, 205; Forum, IV, 2. - (1) Physically. - (2) By temperament. - (3) By susceptibility to undue influence. - (b) It would greatly increase the number of illiterate and unqualified voters: Forum II, 429; New Englander XLIII, 207. - (1) The women who would use it belong to the lowest classes in our cities. - (2) Competent women would not use it. - (c) It would give rise to lax laws and weaken the government: Forum IV, 1-5. - (1) Laws must be sanctioned by physical strength. - (2) The best governments are supported by a preponderance of physical force...
...Free ships furnish the only practicable remedy. - (a) They enable Americans to compete on equal terms for world's commerce.-(1) Ships can be bought at lowest price.-(b) Carrying trade should not be sacrificed to shipbuilding.-(1) It employs fifty times as many men: Kelley, Question of Ships, p. 31.-(c) American shipbuilding not seriously affected.-(1) Only iron ships concerned.-(d) Success of plan well illustrated by Germany's policy: D. A. Wells, as above...
...committee feel that opportunities for valuable educational experience will be thrown open to every man who goes; for he will get a glimpse of the very lowest and most despised classes, and will see the sparks of good which are still glowing even there...