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...answer to this Mr. Bruce wrote President Lowell a letter, an extract from which is printed below, protesting against the general policy of the University as follows...
...extract from last year's review will serve equally well for this year...
Moreover, to say that "if there is a shortage of labor, then the unemployment period must be at an end" is like the attempt to extract rays of sunshine from a cucumber. What the manufacturers in this country protest is not the lack of skilled labor, of which, I believe, there is no serious shortage, but the generally experienced shortage of unskilled labor. In fact, there are large number of skilled workers in the shoe, textile, and other industries still unemployed...
...interesting comment on our much slandered civilization is contained in the extract reprinted below from the Rochester "Times Union". America, the writer complains, is in the midst of a period of looking on, an interested lethargy wherein the vast majority can only sit and wait,--for the game to begin, or the curtain to rise, while it toys with peanuts or peppermints as the case may be. Meanwhile Walter Camp is finding large sale for his "Daily Dozen" among the sedentary thousands who crowd offices in the morning, ball fields after lunch, and theatres in the evening; all because science...
This statement is from a letter written by a native of India who received his doctor's degree at the University a few years ago, and who is now teaching to Calcutta University. Let us compare his testimonial with an extract from a address given by a former Brooks House man to a group of teachers in certain of the American schools in Turkey. Their subject under discussion was the proper type of institution for these schools to foster for the fulfillment of the diverse religious and social interests of the students of that country, students differing widely...