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Although several new men have reported, there is still a dearth of candidates for the discuss and javelin throws. These two events have been accepted by all the leading colleges and are scheduled for the next intercollegiate meet. Candidates are practicing on a specially constructed platform near the new board track, and are under the personal direction of Mr. Jakko Mikkola, former coach of the Finnish Olympic team. Men who are out for the field events are practicing daily in the cage, E. L. Farrel, who returned Saturday to the coaching staff, being in charge of the men in this...
...however, the comic papers of the leading universities have large staffs and special buildings and are generally more elaborate and more widely read. And I must say that they seem to me to be more comic. In particular, they have more artists. At O. and C. there is no dearth of young men who can write--I mean, will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case. The Lampoon...
While these committees have been at work there has been a dearth of official news and a consequent oversupply of rumor. In one case the rumor caused such ill feeling in Italy toward the French that it started riots and bloodshed. In this case the Conference took notice of the rumor and officially and emphatically denied it. For the most part, however, the information that has gone out from here through the press has been trustworthy, and the discussion in the press has been helpful to the progress of the Conference. By means of the press this has become...
...sudden expansion of certain war industries made it necessary for them to get labor at any wage. This caused a vast shifting of our labor force everywhere. It occasioned an apparent dearth in all other industries and they began bidding against one another for the remaining supply. Only those industries that could pay the highest wages could get labor. Farmers lost out in this competition and the supply of farm labor was greatly reduced. Domestic service suffered a similar depletion. Even the schools were robbed of some of their pupils. The unusual demand for labor also drew into industry multitudes...
Another reason may be that the managers of the industry in question are not smart enough to keep expenses down, or to turn out a product that will sell at a remunerative price. Undoubtedly there is a chronic dearth of managing ability of a high order. When a man is found who possesses it, it is a very fortunate thing for laborers. He can keep an industry running which, without him, could not run. That means employment instead of unemployment for a number of men. One such competent manager does more for labor than ten thousand agitators...