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...following books have recently been added to the Social Service Library in Phillips Brooks House: "Christianity and Social Problems," by L. Abbott. "Development of Thrift," by M. V. Brown. "The College Student and His Problems," by J. H. Canfield. "The Coming People," by C. F. Dole. "Doctor Luke of the Labrador," by N. Duncan. "That Last Waif," by H. Fletcher. "Study of Child Nature," by E. Harrison. "The Poor of the Land," by H. R. Haggard. "Social Spirit in America," by C. R. Henderson. "Self Help a Hundred Years Ago," by G. J. Holyoake. "Modern Methods in Church Work...
...There are practicable restrictions-.(a) Increase of head-tax.- (1) Would tend to make cost of emigration to the United States equal that to South America and Australia. Publications Im. Res. League, No. 1. p.p. 11, 12.- (2) Would roughly indicate habits of thrift.- (b) Educational test (ability to read and write any language).- (1) Would exclude few of the desirable and many of the undesirable Publications Im. Res. League, No. 1, p. 13, Nos. 5, 8.- (2) Is in accordance with American principles. Publication. Im. Res. League...
...South. He is susceptible of as much education, development and improvement as the white, and the educated Negro is pushing the white race and slowly abolishing the race line. The Negro has always gone forward, even in the time of his bondage. The race has the instinct of thrift, and oppression only strengthened and developed that instinct. His character needs forming more than reforming. He has never fallen, because he has never had anywhere to fall from. The experience of the Negro in America has been a preparation for the redemption of his own race in Africa...
...increase in the last year of the number of families engaged in agriculture is 1596, and about 1200 new houses have been erected. Orchards are being planted, farm products marketed and numerous other evidences of thrift show the progress they are making. English only is the language used in the schools, thus the people have a community of feeling and thought, and the common use of the English tongue is the first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches...
...body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand. Some students, after getting fairly settled, merely work on from...