Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Photographic Committee in determining to place the Portfolio under their direct supervision, and make it a class affair instead of an independent speculation. The justification of the change is due to the individual editor to whose hands the publication was entrusted, and he has succeeded admirably. The athletic and social records are entirely free from those aggravating mistakes which are of such frequent occurence in irresponsible publications, and in every way the Album is distinctly creditable and rather more than well worth owing...
...decrease in the American birth rate has been due to immigration. With greater possibilities for the native-born laborer, it will rise again, and we shall have the necessary increase in population from our own people. Our powers of assimilation are on the decline. Our social and political evils are on the increase. It is sufficient that a way to remedy these evils has been shown...
...padrone and sweating systems, which can be traced primarily to the influx of too many needy and incompetent Southern European immigrants are among the serious social evils, brought about by this congestive tendency. The growth of the padrone system, founded upon the dependence, not the indepennence, of the individual is far too threatening to the spirit of our institutions to be endured. In the sweating system we trace the relation of cause and effect between the great and increasing overflow of incompetent and undesirable immigration from Southeastern Europe and the rise and extension of our serious evils. The slums...
...remainder of his argument was devoted to giving specific examples of these evils and their tendency to lower social and political conditions...
HARVARD CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- All interested in the Northfield Conference are invited to attend the social in Holden Chapel tomorrow evening from 7.30 to 9. Refreshments...