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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...greatest progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...
Work on Langdell Hall, the new Law School building on Holmes Field, has progressed much more rapidly recently than during the early winter, when unfavorable weather conditions materially retarded the work. The main part of the construction of the building is nom complete, all of the iron and steel girders being up and the stone work in place. The roof has been finished and half coppered: and the underground corridor between Austin Hall and the new building is complete, except for the laying of its floor. Work has just been begun on the electrical and steam heating apparatus...
...strength and wisdom of the people. This faith in our people and in our democratic form of government cannot be over estimated, and it is justified by a comparison between our government and that of Russia. The evidence of the righteousness of our democracy is its universal progress...
Wealth in France is of very recent accumulation, having quadrupled in the last 75 years. This shows that the progress of humanity does not in any way affect the equality of people. The longer people use their wits, the greater will become the successes of some and the failures of others...
...there has been no equality between the laborer and the employer; but such a condition has gradually come about regardless of the efforts to keep it down. In 1789 there was an ordinance passed called the "Liberty of Labor Act;" but the effect of this act upon the actual progress of industry was infinitesimal. The real factor which led to the equalization of laborer and employer, and which also laid the foundations for the great industries of the present, was the introduction of machinery...