Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What lesson does this forcibly bring home to us? Often the very best things we offer our fellowmen, our hardest efforts, our greatest work, go unappreciated by them. We set out to do something noble, something chivalrous, eager to be of use in the world, eager to give inspiration and power to a fellow soul. God inspired us to do this, and yet we find response only here and there. Under such hard conditions what would a brave man do? Have faith, work on and learn to wait. The truth will come and at any rate he will gain high...
Work ordered before the end of next week can be finished for holiday use...
...work on the new addition of the Library is progressing steadily and the reading room will be ready for use by January first. There are to be three floors of book-stacks. There, however, will not be completed until a month or two later...
...Street railways are quasi-public works.- (a) Because they are of a public nature.- (1) In their economic relations.- (2) In their legal relations.- (3) In their use of public highways...
Best general references: National Conference for Good City Government, Philadelphia, 1894 (also bibliography at end of the book); A. H. Sinclair, Municipal Monopolies and their Management (Toronto Univ. Studies in Pol. Sci. No. 2); Solomon Schindler, The Use of Public Ways by Private Corporations, a reply to S. L. Powers in Arena V. 687-693. (May 1892): The Relation of Modern Municipalities to Quasi-Public Works (Am. Ec. Assn. Pubs.); A. D. White, The Government of American Cities, in Forum, X. 357-372 (Dec. 1890); Albert Shaw, Municipal Government in Great Britain...