Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Some Problemsin City School Administration, are basedrespectively upon recent surveys ofschool systems in Salt Lake City andin Butte. These will be useful to anyschool officer or parent who wishes towork out an intelligent view of his ownschool situation. The first book statesmany of the comparisons for twenty-five cities which are about the size ofYonkers. The two works supplement each other,as the second lays more stress uponthe formal elements and gives modelforms, records, etc., while the first givesmore space to the economic setting, com-parison with other communities, healthconditions, etc. School Organization and Administration, byE. P. Cubberley; Some Problems in CitySchool Administration, by George D. Strayer.Yonkers, N. Y. World Book Co. $1.50 each. February 5, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 197 Tl FFANY & CO. Jewelers Silversmiths Stationers The Quality is Proverbial Intelligent and careful,service by mail Fifth Avenue & 37- StreetNew York 198 THE INDEPENDENT February 5, 1917
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NION PACIFIC A little over a hundred years ago all west of theAlleghenies belonged to France, Spain and NoMan. Even in 1850 there were about 100,000 peoplein the Union Pacific territory. Today there are10,000,000. Shacks have become skyscrapers.The desert has been made to bloom. Westernindustries serve the world. All know of the remarkable development of the11 Union Pacific States since the completion ofthe line in 1869. It was Lincoln who urged the construction ofan east and west railway. He insisted that theGovernment help to build it, not only as a mili-tary necessity—as Gen. Dodge had said—but as ameans of holding the Pacific Coast to the Union. From this ideal of a United Republic came thename: Union Pacific. Since the reorganization of this national railwayin 1897, over $269,700,000 have been invested inimprovements—the debt of $60,000,000 to theGovernment has been paid in full—and the wholepeople benefited. In these 48 years the West has won prosperity. The stateshave w

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