Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then there are the ethics of the family. Here comes the divorce problem, the disruption of social groups. How shall man and woman stand in this organism? Lastly, charity, is the problem of the duty of rich to poor. From self-indulgence on the one hand to social resolution on the other is but a single logical step. Ethics says that stability and prosperity are only to be reach by establishing a relation of peaceful alliance...
...opening article in the Atlantic for June is on the "Education of the Negro," by W. T. Harris. For men who are interested in the great race-problem of our country, and especially of the South, the article cannot fail to be of great value, especially from the comments in the shape of foot-notes to the text by such high authorities as the Hon. R. L. Gibson of Louisiana, Hon. J. L. M. Curry, Philip A. Bruce, and Lewis H. Blair...
...other new course to which we drew attention was the course in the conditions of the workingmen. It certainly seems strange that while the rest of the world should be agitating itself over the problems of society, there should be at Harvard so few opportunities of learning in what the real difficulties consist and of studying the scientific way of solving the problems. This past year has been especially unfortunate in this lack of opportunity to study the social world, for the past year saw the absence of both the instructors who up to that time had conducted the only...
...Lands," on one beautiful spot in Canada, and the second, "Nova Scotia as a Summer Resort," on another. Unfortunately each author is so positive that the place which he describes is the most beautiful portion of the continent, that anyone who is now in uncertainty will probably find his problem still harder to decide...
...very dramatic in all their essential - that is, that the four authors of these four stories would depend, each in his own way, on the vividness with which he could narrate a combination of incident which seemed to him to have some meaning, - to throw some light on the problem of life, and then would leave the readers of their stories each to find the meaning or read the lesson as he might, - the founders of the Advocate would, in short, have been surprised if they had known that in twenty-six years their periodical would, except for its editorials...