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Question: "Resolved, That the housing of the poor ought to be improved at public expense." Principal Disputants. - Affirmative: R. W. Hunter and R. C. Larrabee. - Negative: J. Allen and O. G. Villard. Open to all students of the University...
Question: "Resolved, That the housing of the poor ought to be improved at public expense." Principal Disputants. - Affirmative: R. W. Hunter and R. C. Larrabee. - Negative: J. Allen and O. G. Villard. Open to all students of the University...
Robert Burns, was born in 1759. He was taken up by the tide of song and melody which was then rising, and carried it to its highest point. He was born poor and all his life had to fight against adversity. He was a hard working plonghman, too poor even to go to school. What little time he could find for himself, he devoted to getting knowledge...
...necessity for improvement is urgent. - (a) City poor should be supplied with - (1) Parks and open spaces: Octavia HIll. Homes of the London Poor, chap. VII; American Statistical Association's Publications I. 49-61 (1888). (2) Cheap and rapid transit to suburbs; Scribner's XI, 718. - (3) Improved dwellings and lodging houses; A. T. White, Workingmen's Dwellings; Fort. Rev. XLIX. 285. - (4) Reading-rooms and public baths; Scribners XI. 710. - (5) Sanitary inspection and regulation; J. B. Russel, Life in One Room. (b) Good tenements would pay a reasonable money profit: Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1893; Octavia Hill, Homes...
...Changes should be made at public expense; Octavia Hill, Houses of the London Poor, chap. VI. - (a) They would benefit the general public. - (b) Present health remedies are insufficient: Forum V. 212; Forth. Rev. LIII, 76. - (c) Remedies at public expense have succeeded in Glasgow, 129-133; Octavia Hill, Homes of the London Poor, 73. - (d) The necessity is so urgent that only municipal control can remedy it within a reasonable time. - (e) It is of the same nature as other enterprises which government looks after...