Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to these lectures under the auspices of the "Progressive Movement," Mayor G. R. Lunn, of Schenectady, N. Y., will speak on Monday, February 12, under the auspices of the Socialist Club...
...committee, under whose auspices lectures on the "Progressive Movement" have been given by prominent men, to members of the University, from time to time during last year and this, has made definite arrangements for four speakers to come to Harvard. Hon. V. L. Berger, Congressman from Wisconsin, the first Socialist elected to Congress, and editor of the Milwaukee Leader, will lecture on Monday, February 19. His subject will probably be "A Socialist Criticism of the Progressive Movement." Mr. W. A. White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, Kansas, and author of "The Old Order Changeth," "A Certain Rich Man," and other...
...these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present systems to be an evil because evils have resulted from its abuse...
Governor Wilson pointed out with remarkable clearness that the majority of the present day evils arise not from the fundamentals of the "present system", but from its abuses. The cry of the earnest, over-zealous socialist, therefore, is "Abolish a system which permits of such atrocities." The cry of every honest, conservative reformer, on the other hand, is "Enforce the present system in all the purity of its fundamental principles, and the evils will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive...
...Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will speak, under the auspices of the Socialist Club, in Holworthy 2 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. He will take as his subject "Socialism and Anarchy." An informal discussion will follow the lecture...