Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale university under the Dwight regime proposes to keep abreast of current industrial problems. Dr. Washington Gladden's course of nine lectures on the relation of the ministry and the church to social problems has been successfully inaugurated here this week. Dr. Gladden is a prominent representative of the increasing number of younger clergymen in the Congregational body who are not afraid to grapple with socialism and in the light of the gospel they preach, to unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study...
...devoted to the discussion of the question whether economic theory can be Christianizad. After reference to the formidable foe which the Christian sociologist finds in the realms of trade, where the desire for property has become the overmastering passion, and the enormous inequality in possessions has created envy and social discontent, the lecturer set forth the difficulty in the way of convincing the American laborer that these social differences are created by nature. Our society is built on the doctrine that all men are created equal, and the spelling-book and the ballot are theoretically in the hands of every...
...Washington Gladdu, of Columbus, O., who is to preach in Appleton Chapel on Jan. 13, is now delivering a series of lectures on social economy at Yale. This course is to last two weeks...
...pleasant to hear of improvement in the governing policy and in the undergraduate aspirations of other colleges. It is natural too that the larger institutions in affording a wider opportunity for the existence of varied social elements, should be the first to swerve from some of the intensely conservative and now antiquated restrictions of the past. Moreover, for this reason, it would be surprising indeed if Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among...
...this seem small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...