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...Living Room of the Union Tuesday week at 2 o'clock. Detective Burns has recently been connected with the prosecution of graft in the police department of New York and is well known as having secured the majority of the evidence used in the conviction of the McNamara dynamiters. He spoke on the latter subject in the Union last spring. His subject for next Tuesday has not yet been announced...
...keen insight into contemporary social and political problems. His advanced stand on such questions, and his connections with labor, have won for him the title of "anarchist." Mr. Steffens is not, however, as extreme as the title would imply. He was largely instrumental in obtaining the confession of the McNamara brothers a year ago, and lectured here on the subject last spring. His address this evening will be open only to members of the University...
...abroad, including Heidelberg and the Sorbonne, and is well known as a journalist and author, having held editorial positions on the New York Evening Post, McClure's Magazine, and the American Magazine. Recently he has been lecturing and writing on social problems. Last year he lectured here on "The McNamara Dynamiters: Social Symptoms." The lecture tomorrow will be open only to members of the University...
...Lincoln Steffens delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The McNamara Dynamiters: Social Symptoms." Mr. Steffens pointed out that the problem of graft was the same in cities, states, or countries. Germany and England have advanced a great deal further in regard to checking graft than the United States and France. What has been done in Berlin certainly ought to be done in San Francisco, and there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be done. The trouble in this country is that there is a general fight against the labor problem instead of a desire to solve...
...Lecture on "The McNamara Dynamiters: Social Symptoms," by Lincoln Steffens, in Living Room of Union...