Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the two weeks beginning Monday, April 22, Major Leonard Darwin, of London, will give a series of lectures on "Municipal Ownership...
Major Leonard Darwin, son of the famous naturalist, Charles Darwin, is to deliver a set of four lectures under the auspices of the Department of Economics on "Municipal Ownership and the Management of Public Works in Great Britain" during the week immediately following the spring recess...
...Avenel said that the great revolution of modern times is the change in opinion, first about things which can be possessed and second, about the extent of possession. Individual ownership in the Middle Ages was less complete than nowadays. Ownership was taken for use and special formalities were performed to make possessions secure. All land was the common property of anyone who could use it, sometimes gratis, sometimes for a trivial payment...
...nineteenth century artificial meadows were made, ownership became precise, and hunting restrictions were enforced. The Revolution did away with collective ownership, without which it would have been impossible to supply the wants of the population. Progressive civilization is a conquest of the present, which has done away with individual ownership...
...following books have been added to the Union Library during the last two weeks: "Brief Literary Criticisms," R. H. Hutton; "The False Gods," G. H. Lorimer; "The German Universities," F. Paulsen; "The House of a Thousand Candles," M. Nicholson; "Joseph Jefferson," F. Wilson; "Municipal Ownership in Great Britain," H. R. Meyer '92; "Panama to Patagonia," C. M. Pepper; "Six Stars," N. Lloyd; "The Tower," M. T. Wright; "Women and Things," Mark Twain's Library of Humor...