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...first volume of the history Professor Channing set forth his purposes to which these new volumes will conform. It is his intention to depart from the antiquarian methods of considering each occurrence for itself. Unity has so characterized all that is American that the inter-relation of events cannot be ignored...
...with the Six Nations in 1794. Indians in Oklahoma and elsewhere have sworn allegiance to the U. S. But the Senecas? Never! Their government, they set forth, has been peaceably exercised through chiefs chosen by "mothers of the tribe''-a practice somewhat modified in 1848 to conform with the practices of their white neighbors. But throughout all the disasters which have fallen upon their race in the last three centuries they have not yielded their sovereignty. Presumably the stubborn Chief Hoag is not ignorant of the fate of other Indians .who also had treaties with...
...only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
...Court of Industrial Relations had ordered the Charles Wolff Packing Co. to conform to certain wages, hours of labor, working conditions. The Supreme Court of the state had commanded obedience to the order. After a preliminary review of the case by the U. S. Supreme Court, the State Court gave up its rulings on wages and working conditions, but insisted on the specified labor-hours. That crippled the Industrial Court's prestige. Last week's final review threw out the ruling on labor-hours. The Relations Court is now believed to be dead.* Gov. Allen's great...
...general examinations might well remain, however, as a minimum standard to which the candidate for a degree must conform and as an inspiration to the constitutionally idle. This is compulsion at a sane and healthy minimum. As an added incentive to original work every candidate for a degree should be required to submit a thesis upon some subject in his field of concentration, for, after all, an examination even of the most improved form places an emphasis on the marshalling rather than the creative faculties of man. The writing of a thesis ought not to prove particularly onerous in consideration...