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...greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last 50 years...
...following committee has been appointed by Professor Hollis to report next Commencement upon means of effecting an organization of Harvard graduates interested in engineering, as proposed at the recent dinner of the Engineering Society: Professor L. J. Johnson '87, chairman, Mr. G. S. Rice '70, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Railroad Commission of New York City, F. W. Dean '75, and J. F. Vaughn '95, both of Boston, F. L. Gilman '95, chief engineer of the Western Electric Company of New York City, H. M. Hale '04, assistant engineer of the Rapid Transit Railroad Commission of New York City...
...Kelley, who is a graduate of Cornell University, has been secretary of the National Consumers' League since 1899, and is one of the leading authorities on child labor conditions in this country. She is the author of "Ethical Gains through Recent Legislation," has translated Engel's "The Conditions of the Working Classes," and is a frequent contributor to the magazines on social and labor questions...
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...
...Until recent times 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...