Word: mr
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mr. J. Lincoln Steffens, author of "The Shame of the Cities," delivered a very interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Politics the Game." He described the corruption which pervades our municipal, State, and Federal governments...
...find "graft," said Mr. Steffens, is to go to a "grafter" for it. The board of aldermen in every city of the country are corrupt, and betray the confidence of the people whom they represent. The American government no longer represents the whole nation, but only its worst and most unscrupulous part...
...useless, for business is as rotten as politics. There is the same kind of treason in the insurance companies as in the legislature. Labor is equally unfitted for reform; the San Francisco labor government is as corrupt as any business enterprise. The old game of politics, the kind that Mr. Roosevelt plays, is one of compromise. The politician bought his position and kept it. Now the political aspirant should promise to follow out a definite program and make others promise and keep their word. The college man with a knowledge of economics should follow these rules and wrest the power...
...Mr. Steffens was graduated from the University of California in 1889. He then went to Europe and studied philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Paris, and at the Sorbonne. On his return to America, he became a journalist and was at first reporter for the New York Evening Post, and later its assistant city editor. He has also been connected with the New York Commercial Advertiser, McClure's Magazine, and is now associate editor of the American Magazine. His work has been devoted chiefly to articles on our political situation, which have been contributed from time...
EXPOSITION OF CHAMBER MUSIC. Mr. Whiting and Mrs. Charles Rabold. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 P. M. Open only to officers and students of the University...