Word: booning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKinlock of Chicago, a fourth Freshman Hall will be built in memory of their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16, a gallant officer who fell at Beray-le-Sec. on July 21, 1918. We are deeply grateful for this memorial to a brave soldier, which will be an inestimable boon to generations of future students living in the hall that bears his name...
...pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have had similar opportunity. Napoleon would have edified thousands with a talk press-agented as "Why I Kept My Hand Under My Waistcoat When I Posed For Photographs." Nero, lecturing on "Music, a Flame", would have been a boon to students of Music 4. And the gentle Samuel Pepys, with his eye for insignificant details, could have constructed a series of lectures on British manners and customs that would cram Symphony Hall nightly...
After summarizing the opinions of a Boston manufacturer who claims that an acute stage in the labor shortage has been reached, you boldly arrived at the conclusion that "the limitations of immigration has been a boon to this country in every way, save apparently in this resulting scarcity of labor." The new immigration law has been in existence since 1921. And in so short a period of time you have been able to observe the remarkable improvement which you term "a boon to this country". Just how has this country benefited you failed to show. It is to be regretted...
Undoubtedly the limitation of immigration has been a boon to this country in every way, save apparently in this resulting scarcity of labor. But, on careful examination, this very shortage is indicative of some good. It indicates one of two things. Either, the number of laborers remaining the same, industry has improved, or, industry remaining the same; many of the former laborers have advanced themselves above the laboring classes; either of which should be beneficial to the country. Still more important than this; if there is a shortage of labor, then the unemployment period must...
...sweetly as if conferring some priceless boon) Put three pennies in the slot and turn the handle, please...