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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true. It is difficult to understand why a consistent plan was not followed in the erection of our buildings, and why distorted ideas of architectural beauty should have been perpetuated in some of our least attractive structures. An intense absorption in the engrossing problems of education on the part of the governing authorities must be responsible for the uneven development of the University grounds. Why the power plant was allowed to drop down in the midst of the general scheme, and why Gore Hall was countenanced, are questions that we cannot answer, but are object lessons from which...
...exhibition of Japanese prints at the Fogg Art Museum has been replaced by a special loan exhibit of drawings by Ruskin. The exhibition is made in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46. A large part of the drawings in the exhibition were given by Ruskin himself to Professor Norton, and are loaned by members of the Norton family. In addition to the drawings, there are a number of etchings by Ruskin and engravings after his drawings, besides reproductions of original drawings in volumes of the Library Edition of Ruskin's Works, shown in the cases in the Print Room...
...Withington '10, amateur heavyweight champion of New England, refereed the bouts, and L. Withington '11 acted as time-keeper. The men who took part in the exhibition have been for some time under the tutelage of Mr. Anderson and all showed the result of their instruction...
Turning then to the main part of the lecture, Mr. Mansfield said that it is the system of taxation which has caused the great amount of really unjust criticism. In order to maintain education, religion, and an the efficient government the natives have been taxed forty hours of work per month, for which they were paid the usual wages. In enforcing this there naturally have been isolated instances of cruelty and oppression, but it was a false report on the part of the British Consul of the Congo Free State that gave rise to the late accusations of misrule...
...four precepts by which capitalism and socialism may be compared. This test is incomplete, but it creates a strong presumption in the favor of socialism. Socialism is an undeveloped mechanism and should be judged as such. The government offices are run socialistically, especially the post office, and if the part of the work of the latter which is run by contract were eliminated or changed, the whole system would conform to socialism in every particular. The decision between capitalism and socialism should not be made upon superficial details, but upon the essential principles inherent in each...