Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...problem is such a vast one that any speculation on it seems almost in vain. Year by year the College press here has alternately thundered and complained, and the only appreciable result has been that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
These remarks and this new remedy seem especially timely at present, for we are now facing this "mucker" problem in all its immensity, and we shall continue to face it and groan under our inflections in all probability until the November winds sweep the "mucker" away, unless some such strong measures are adopted...
...will overcome this in nearly every case, and in some special branches enough can be gained in four to answer all practical purposes. The script is peculiar and must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this is reduced to a minimum. The advice of an experienced friend is valuable, but a fixed purpose and the wisdom to avoid outside allurements is of still greater...
...life to the movement. The moral ideal at the basis of socialism is the ideal of society as an organized whole, whose interests are not identical with the mere aggregate of the individual interests. The conflict between this and the other, (the utilitarian ideal) was then outlined and the problem was prepared for further discussion at the next time. The next lecture will deal especially with the conflict between socialism and utilitarianism as moral ideas...
...subjects are known. The second will be on the "Wages Question" and Mr. Edward Atkinson will be the lecturer. Mr. Atkinson is well known as a business man who has turned his attention to the subject of political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people...