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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hallowell was then introduced. He said that our entire political fabric rests upon the ballot box, and when that is corrupted the beginning of the end of a Republican form of government is in sight...
...paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black-listed men is true (and there seems little reason to doubt it) they have fearful grievances which demand redress. We lose sight of the fact that in these days of striking laborers, that the employers are not always the most upright of men. The employers are not the only sufferers and the claims of the employed must be regarded before labor troubles will cease...
...Babbitt has recently published a small pamphlet on "Reading German at Sight...
Prof. J. W. White's book on "Reading Greek at Sight" will soon appear...
...brief review of Mr. Hurd's book on the athletics and athletes of Yale. There is much in the book that he extremely interesting, but nothing so much so as the graphic picture that is given of the endless rivalry between the sister institutions-Yale and Harvard. We lose sight of that other field-the intellectual-in which the two universities are brought together in competition, and we see two great bodies of students perpetually preparing for the struggle that is never decided. Every winter the long process of training is undergone cheerfully and perseveringly, and every spring and fall...