Word: states
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There had been, half a century before, an earlier Tenement House Commission, appointed by the Senate of the State, to see what ailed New York. It came back to Albany and recommended, as a means of abolishing drunkenness, "furnishing to each man a clean and comfortable home. I suppose they laughed at that, called it paternal government, and, put in that bald shape, it looked like it. There were fifteen thousand tenements in New York at that early day. Today there are eighty thousand and their united influence goes toward the destruction of the home. The discovery, on this side...
...anywhere, or, if we do, find ourselves stuck, side-tracked and helpless before we know it. It is going to take us twenty years more to get where we cannot slide back. Every winter the forces of selfish greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate profit, marshal their forces at Albany to make a breach in the tenement house law, now here, now there, anything...
March 9--New Hampshire State College, at Durham...
From explorations in Central America a number of casts of sculptures and hieroglyphs and an extensive report, illustrated by photographs, have been received. The fourth annual expedition to New York State yielded a good collection of implements, ornaments, pottery, and skeletons from an ancient Iroquois site. In the research work of Mr. Ernest Volk in the glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J., several paleolithic implements were found and additional geological facts were obtained in confirmation of the antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. The report describes the expedition to South America and acknowledges the courtesies extended by the Peruvian...
...Chapelle is pastor of Our Lady of Victory Church, Boston. He was born in France and is personally familiar with both sides of the struggle between Church and State. In his conferences he will treat the subject particularly from the Catholic point of view...