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Senator Beveridge stated that he preferred a Conservative Republican administration to a Democratic because of the fact that the Democratic party is not qualified to be the party in power. It contains the elements of opposition and not of construction. The last Democratic administration was a failure, with abler men in control than the party can boast of today...
...chief work of the Students' Employment Office, on the other hand, consists in providing temporary employment for graduates and undergraduates. Within the last year, the tendency of the Office has been to concentrate the work in the hands of the abler men, so that the total of salaries earned has been greater than in former years, although fewer men have actually secured positions...
Although our primary aim in advocating the abolition of competitions for managerships is negative--avoiding unfairness to competitors and doing away with athletic subscriptions--the change would not be without its positive advantages. There would be a distinct gain from the fact that men abler and more representative than those ordinarily attracted by a competition, would be available. In every class there are a certain number of men, whose executive ability has been tested in other connections, whose personality has given them prominence; men too busy to undergo a long, tedious competition, but who would perform gladly and excellently...
...second speaker for Yale was Herbert H. Kellogg. He said that cabinet membership in the House would restore the constitutional balance between executive and the legislature There would be an advantage in having members who would be responsible to no constituencies and abler statesmen would be appointed to cabinet offices...
...unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years of their college course. Then follows, in the majority of cases...