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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...study of the University Catalogue which appeared yesterday makes clear what Harvard's progress has been during the past year. Although there has not been a large number of radical changes there has been a general strengthening of the facilities for instruction, and the courses which are now offered are more attractive than ever. This is particularly true of the Scientific School. There has been an attempt in the past few years to make the School second to none in the country and the effort has been rewarded by a most gratifying increase in the number of students in attendance...
...opposed to progress. - (a) Workingmen should not be treated as children: Nation LIX, 376 (Nov. 22, 1894.) - (b) Checks the growth of Trade Unions: Am. Fed. of Labor in Pub. Opin. XVIII, 863 (Dec. 6, 1894). - (c) Is opposed by Gompers and other labor leaders: Pub. Opin...
Professor de Sumichrast will report to the society the progress of the work on the play at the next regular meeting of the club tonight. Dr. A. C. Coolidge will address the club on "The French Colonies." Professor de Sumichrast will also give a lecture Friday, open to the public, on the "Fourberies de Scapin," reading selections from a translation of the play...
...past few weeks about twelve men have taken the lacrosse practice every day on Holmes Field. J. A. Leighton Gr. and G. C. Curtis Sp. have coached the men in passing and running, and although good progress has been made, it is doubtful if a team can be formed unless more candidates appear...
...Land values are the best subject for taxation: Ricardo, Chaps. 24, 32; Henry George, Progress and Poverty. - (a) Society may justly appropriate land rents. - (1) Rents are due to the development of society, not to the owner's activity. - (b) Taxation of land rents will prevent unjust enrichments from land investments. - (c) It will prevent speculation in land. - (d) It will lead to the more effective use of land...