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...year by Cambridge undergraduates against the inception of the House Plan to the fact that Harvard had been anticipated several years earlier by Princeton in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a quadrangle system. Both Harvard and Yale may be tradition-bound, but neither is so blindly stupid as to discard a practicable idea because the other has first tasted...
Finally, in doing away with the Prom it seems as if the Junior Class officers have put themselves in the rather precarious position of being "passe", for why bother with officers if there is nothing for them to do? Rather than slip into the senility and discard of the previous class leaders I should like to suggest that they "get on the ball." Luther H. Gulick...
Speaking before a luncheon gathering at the Liberal Club, yesterday; H. M. Watkins, British Laborite, who is traveling in the United States under a Rockefeller Fellowship, said that the outstanding feature of American industry, as seen by an Englishman, is the willingness of operators to discard out of date machinery. He predicted that within a few generations American prosperity would fall into decline...
...chief criticism of the attitude of operators in American industry is that concurrent with the willingness to discard all but the latest machinery there is an equal readiness to cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative...
President Angel admits that undergraduate and alumni locality have focalized around the class. Then why discard such a potential weapon, for one which has yet to be tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds...