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...problem this week is to adjust the rowing to the river and is of utmost importance especially for the Freshman crews which have not had any previous experience. It is also of importance as regards the choice of the first and second University crews, since the coaches will base a large part of their decisions on the ability shown by the various men in this first stage of the work on the river...
Another of the perennial attempts to adjust the workings of the celestial universe to the convenience of civilized man is now before Congress in the shape of a bill to introduce a new calendar for the United States, the change to be made in 1928. This movement has the backing of the Liberty Calendar Association of America, with a list of dignitaries as long as its name. So far as we know, no one has ever objected to the length of the day, and curiously enough no reformers have ever proposed a substitute for the seven-day week; but schemes...
...took a moment for our eyes to adjust themselves in the dim light. Then all at once we discovered, in a standing posture, leaning against the wall, a human skeleton. His hands were upraised grasping a rope of twisted bark. Far above, in the shadows, we could make out the metal of a huge bell. The clapper, which had fallen to the floor, was worn with long usage...
What more natural, then, that we should adjust out school system, particularly the primary, so that education for the best possible enjoyment of leisure may replace present-day education for economic efficiency--alike for the laborer and Mr. Seaver's "young barbarians" in the colleges? After all, it is the educated people who, by the large, are the happiest; that background social, philosophical, aesthetic that detached point of view which education gives, somehow helps to preserve one's equanimity amid the vicissitudes of existence. Such being the case, Mr. Seaver can not, with decency, dub "Pharisee" and "hypocrite" those...
...question arises whether the condition can be corrected with new legislation. Is this the real crisis of the amendment, or is it merely an unavoidable halting point in the adjustment of the law to the situation? Does the illicit sale and wide-spread use of spirits prove that national prohibition is something which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that...