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...good examination. The chemistry lectures have also covered so little ground that it has been customary for the instructors to coach the members of the course just before the examination. The character of the criticisms on the senior forensics and the low average of the marks show that the progress of the students in writing English is far from satisfactory both to the examiners and to the men themselves. This is undoubtedly a branch of education which is absolutely essential in a college course. It certainly seems that it might made of much greater value by beginning it earlier...
...Philosophical department, presided at the annual meeting of the American Society of Psychical Research on Tuesday evening in Boston. It was voted to discontinue the American society as a separate organization and form an American branch of the English society. Professor James delivered an interesting address on the recent progress of psychical research in England, France, and elsewhere. He is American canvasser for the International Congress of Psychologists, which is soon to issue a census of hallucinations...
...beneficial to the masses.- 1. By annihilation of selling value and its speculative element. 2. The burden of taxation on productive industry would thus be considerably lightened. 3. By the gradual abolition of poverty-The Land and the Community, pp. 147-173; Lippincott, March 1887, p. 491; George's Progress and Poverty, pp. 389-408; The Nineteenth Century...
...Difficulties of accomplishment overcome, (a) by gradual change, (b) by granting the necessary power to congress.- Clarke, pp. 39-41, 4. No further centralization of power is involved; (a) the government is already a large landholder.- Thackeray's The Land and the Community, pp. 138, 174-185, George's Progress and Poverty...
...History shows that the progress of civilization any the division of labor have demanded the substitution of private tenure for common ownership in land...