Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already impoverished island more than commensurate with any revenue received...
...Social Psychology Club. Professor Lindley M. Keasbey of Bryn Mawr. Subject: The Institution of Society. Psychological Laboratory, Upper Dane, 8 p. m. Open to advanced students of Philosophy and Economics...
Professor Jenks of Cornell, delivered the last of his series of lectures on trusts last night, on the subject of "Social Effects and Legislation...
...social evils are of greater consequence. The democratic system of government needs individual self-reliance, and the competitive system in business develops this. Trusts bring about the opposite result, setting aside competition, and saving the weak by sheltering them in combinations. This makes little difference in the industrial world, for in the first case many of these weaker establishments would fail, and their creditors would thus suffer. Those who favor trusts say that by them inefficient men are kept from trying to do business independently, thus preventing a great economic evil, and that capable men are given good positions, good...
...Lectures on Trusts. IV. Social Effects; Legislation. Professor Jenks, of Cornell University. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...