Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...board of railroad commissioners has made a special report on the petition for a more adequate surface car system in Harvard square. Nine plans and many palliative suggestions have been submitted. It is necessary that the new transfer station be convenient to the surface roads and to the proposed elevated railroad which will run out Mount Auburn street. For this reason, the plan of an island station in Mount Auburn street, east of Brattle square, as proposed by President Eliot, appeared to the board to be on the whole the most expedient for radical and permanent relief...
...state has purchased 10,330 feet of land on the north side of West Harvard street, Brighton, just across the Charles River, to be used in the new park system...
...necessity that there shall be a surplus of labor if there is always to be the proper supply. Better to have too many men than not enough, and better to have Southern Europeans in the sweat shops than Germans or Americans. The affirmative is arguing for the ideal system. We demand that they shall give us one definite method for a greater restriction...
...most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
...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...