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...slinging. If the institutions have really been backward in their methods, they should frankly concede it and proceed to improve themselves; for no educational institution is worthy of that name that is not willing to listen to suggestions. Col. Forbes, moreover, acts as if he were anxious to divert any attention from his own department, the Veterans' Bureau, by pointing a finger at the vocational schools...
...fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity for the hero to fall in love with the heroine at first sight,, to love her through several acts and scenes in the face of paternal opposition, and to receive the expected "bless you my children" at the end; it affords...
Real living costs can be reduced in but two ways, either through increasing production or through decreasing consumption. For consumers merely to divert their demand to new channels can have no effect on prices in general. So long as the public continues to spend all it makes, prices will stay up. Economizing through wearing overalls may slightly reduce the price of other clothes, but if the amount so saved is spent on other goods,--food, automobiles or diamond rings--the prices of those articles is bound to rise in response to the increased demand. Only through greater production and general...
...turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have learned something of the spirit of sacrifice. The whole nation is recovering from the hysteria and feverish but often misdirected energy of the last year...
Being the instigator and chief promoter of this insidious attempt to divert the columns of the CRIMSON to a meaningless and purposeless discussion of education, I suppose it is now my office to make some sort of apology for its brief and miserable life...