Word: american
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...approaches the agitation against national prohibition is growing more and more powerful. The cities of the country are holding series of indignation meetings. On Saturday the thousand representatives of organized labor paraded in Washington as protest against the ban on beer a delight wines. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, warned the Senate that nothing could do more to bring about a repetition of conditions in Russia tan keeping beer from the laboring...
While we feel that the structure of American society is too sound to crumble like that of Russia and that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution...
...what the man's next conquest of the air will be. The news that the second attempt at a non-stop flight across the Atlantic has been successful, and that the "pond" has been bridge, not only by one who stopped to land at the Azores, but by an American and a Briton who spurned the ground for over 16 hours, adds one more to the long list of aerial accomplishments. The second team the establishment of a new altitude record of 33,136 feet, although of less public interest, still shows that constant progress is being made toward...
...current annual report, President Meiklejohn of Amherst College makes some interesting suggestions as to the desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with...
Most conspicuous of all the defects in American journalism has been the lack of a good sane weekly journal of politics and general discussion. The "Nation" and the "New Republic" in turn threatened to fill the gap, wavered, and finally degenerated into radical slander out of which it is now difficult to discover any real constructive criticism...