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...class suffers so much as the farmer from the bane of surplus supplies", Professor Sprague declared. "This is true for two reasons. In the first place, farming produce cannot be exported easily because it will spoil in the process. Secondly, the farmer cannot suspend, operations as do the large steel or coal corporations, until the prices rise and even if he could, the farming class is so numerous that prices as a whole would be affected little by one man's attempt to decrease the output. The general wheels of 'up or down' are hard on the farmer because...
Yale's magnificent new gift, from an anonymous donor, of seven hundred and fifty acres of woodland on the outskirts of New Haven, stands out in refreshing contrast to the members of half-given or useless legacies which are the bane of education today, embarrassing the beneficiaries as much as they inflate the names of the benefactors. Although it has been said that over half the title of college president is the office of continually passing the hat; it is more and more becoming the fashion for a captain of industry to justify his gains by largesse thrown...
Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...
...young artist (why is it they are so frequently artists) every possible ounce of its somewhat standardized sentiment. In a set which was well conceived, though badly lighted in the second act, the whole company moved with that machine like smoothness which is at once the delight and the bane of the initiated observer. The united product of designer, producer and actors at times approached perfection...
This evening in the Living Room of the Union, Miss Bane Addams, famous Chicago settlement worker, and Dr. Toyokichi Iyenaga, Director of the East and West News Bureau, will speak under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club. The meeting, which is open to members of the Liberal Club and the Union, will start at eight o'clock with Professor Sayre of the Law School presiding...