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Professor Peabody gave the fourth lecture in his series on the Ethics of the Social Question in Sever 11 last evening. He spoke on the labor question. Here, said he, the individual is seen in his relation to the modern industrial world. None can be unconscious of the unrest of the laboring masses, nor indifferent as to its meaning...
...This unrest has come, not because their position is growing worse, but because they see those above them bettering their condition at a much faster rate than can they. It is not then an outcry caused by economic hardship, but it is a moral protest. Popular education, in fact, really lies behind all this unrest...
...Apologist" is the most ambitious piece of prose in the number. Taking for his text some thoughts of Bourget, Mr. Hapgood indulges at some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life...
...order and extremely thorough. The requirements for admission are the same as those of Harvard in past years. The young ladies recite with their brother-students, and seem to have a peculiar propensity for leaving them in the dim and shadowy distance. The visitor has a strange sensation of unrest as he hears, while passing a recitation room, "Mr. Smith, account for this very strange construction." "Can't do it, sir;" and then hears Miss Jones say that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education. They would soon find that...
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