Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGINEERING 6A.- Problem books returned in L. S. S. 5 today after...
Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will issue, the latter part of February, a book of remarkable importance, "The Liquor Problem, in its Legislative Aspect." It is the popular statement of the results of a very careful investigation of the working of prohibitory and license laws of various kinds in Maine, Iowa, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Missouri. This investigation was made by experts under the direction of Eliot and Low, and James C. Carter, Esq., a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty, which has undertaken the problem of the Drink Question...
...Atlantic Monthly for February is published a study by President Eliot on American liquor laws. In 1893 about fifty men were writing in co-operation on various sociological topics and undertook a detailed study of the liquor problem. The work was divided between four committees. The legislative committee was composed of President Eliot, James C. Carter of the Board of Overseers and President Seth Low of Columbia...
...evolved in the struggle between the King and the people. The people had to have centralized leadership to compete with the centralized power of the King. It was a work of reform rather than of creation. In America we have had no struggle against ruler or class. Our problem has been chiefly the up building of a nation, a task which demands slow and sure steps...
...European concert and the problem of universal peace...