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Insidious bookshops-their lure is all to the good. (P. 15.) Intentions to abolish child labor...
...decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn but as a relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination...
...Sophomore class has been even more energetic, and, seizing the bull by the horns, is holding a referendum on the subject abolishing the sixty per cent rule entirely. Such action would seem to be eminently fitting, for whether or not one day is enough to secure the quota this year, the rule has made itself thoroughly odious in the past and is far from likely to be a blessing in the future. Proposed originally because there was too little interest in the middle class elections, the rule has not even theory, much less practical success, to recommend it; interest...
Once more America is threatened with a new kind of prohibition, which may well be termed prohibition of misconception. Already the movies, in defense of the American farmer, have decided to abolish the "hayseed" from the screen. Farmers, hereafter, will be dressed in sane apparel. However this is merely the beginning...
...much importance, of course, should not be attached to speeches at conventions-even at bankers' conventions. Yet the necessity, according to President Puelicher of the American Bankers' Association, for abolishing the " treacherous business cycle" amounts to what advertising men call an " interrupting idea." There were no real business cycles until we had banks and a banking-credit problem and, arguing from precedent, it may not be until we abolish all banking and return to the Middle Ages that the business cycle can be also eliminated. This is just what the Socialists propose, and after President Puelicher...