Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...marginal factory owner, it is something to be fleeced always, and fawned on when occasion required. For Mr. Gompers, it is no doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors...
...water, you cannot make him drink." It is worthy of notice that this remark is made of a quadruped, but not a biped; in fact, if a biped is led to a beautiful stream of water, we might assume that he would take a long and refreshing drink, or even jump in all over. At any rate, if he does not, the inference is fair that there is something wrong with the biped...
Such a situation was perhaps to be expected. Even before the war the practical arts were in the ascendancy. Now as a self-evident result of the war they are still more in the ascendancy. It is not an unhealthy condition, and it will not be a positively unhealthy condition until the liberal arts colleges show actual losses...
Records of 62 institutions show a like increase. From 130,630 students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
...season were players not participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...