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...following article, which contains the substance of the remarks made by F. W. Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, at the dinner of the Class of 1879 on the fiftieth anniversary of graduation, is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
Testily the Tiger asks: "Is war really the natural condition of all living creatures? The controlling law of the universal struggle for existence so decrees! We have only to look about us to become convinced of the fact. Everything conflicts. . . . 'Economic war' is the current phrase for describing this state of affairs. ... I will not dwell on the pacific phraseology in which we disguise economic war, which, quite as much as armed conflicts, sheds the blood of the weak in order to increase the vital resources of the strong. The case is too plain to admit of argument...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
That nearly every stock was at bargain prices by any modern economic standard was best shown by the fact that very soundest stocks were selling at ten times current earnings and many a stock such as that of the General Motors Corp. reached a point where it was only five or six times current earnings. And General Motors, according to the once unchallenged statement of John J. Raskob, should sell at 15 times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds...
Wilfred B. Shaw, former alumni secretary of the University of Michigan, in an article in the current Scribners finds that the college alumni of this country are wrongly criticized in showing interest only in football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity...