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When men pride themselves on being the wage-earners of the world, they over-look the fact that in the United States alone there are over seven million women who are earning their own living. If fitness to vote is tested by obedience to the law or by the sense of responsibility to citizenship, women have proved by statistics of crime and by the equal suffrage elections in California that they are even more fit to vote then...
...Carnegie Peace Fund have announced the real reason for President Eliot's coming trip around the world. President Eliot at the request of the Peace Fund committee is to travel through the various Asiatic countries for the purpose of explaining the organization and aims of the ten million dollar Peace Endowment, and of studying public opinion there upon matters of international concern. He will secure the material for a report which will consider how best the Carnegie Endowment may proceed with the view of promoting the cause of peace among the Asiatic nations...
...have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings, and thereby assure the future of that entire section; but the unfriendly clamor...
...Fourth of July oration given in Boston in 1845 is today, 66 years after its delivery, annually published and distributed by the Peace Societies of England and America. Of Sumner's speech on "The Crime Against Kansas," given in the United States Senate on May 19, 1856, fully a million copies were circulated. It was reprinted and widely distributed in England. In this respect it may be said of Sumner: "He fired the shot heard round the world." This speech was never answered in debate. The bludgeon of the slave power in the hands of Preston Brooks was the only...
...Scientific School and in 1885 the degree of LL.D. from the University. The fortune which he amassed in the development of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines was spent in endeavors to advance zoological research. His gifts to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology amounted to more than a million dollars. He was a member of the Board of Overseers from 1873 to 1878 and in 1885, and a Fellow of Harvard College from 1878 to 1884 and from...