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...opinion, the proper development of aviation has been greatly hindered by the wrong sort of newspaper publicity. In America business men have been discouraged form backing commercial air-lines by the frequent disasters occurring to airplanes, and by the impractical expensive nature of the planes now extant. The fact is that aviation has been prematurely exploited. Airplanes are not yet safe; they are not as yet commercially practicable. It is not sensible to expect that they should...
...right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
...newspaper, it is the Time's business to follow and to influence politics and political progress. National affairs are integral in the world of the metropolitan press. Even so college is very properly the college student's primary concern. An neither the collegiate nor the political field is co-extant with cosmos...
...course this money does not go to the player, but it might just as well," he continued, "for commercialization presents all the evils of professionalism. This same situation holds in the realm of tennis. The game has been commercialized to the point where all the faults of professionalism are extant in its present make-up, and many controversies result. Therefore, if we are to have this commercialization of all sports, why not pay the individual player? After all, he is the one who does the work. I am a staunch supporter of athletes such as Red Grange, who turn professional...
...Oxford still was able to lend its tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...