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...college courses is shown by our experience at Harvard. Several years ago we began to gather actual problems from Boston and Cambridge, and later from cities in other parts of the country. A few of the cases were secured from printed documents, . . . but the bulk of them were obtained first-hand from public officials, bureaus of municipal research, and civic organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides. In some of the cases...
Comment. John L. Lewis has been President of the United Mine Workers for eight years. "One who holds no brief for the coal companies" (New York Herald Tribune) commented succinctly on the "gigantic conspiracies" alleged by Mr. Lewis, as follows: "Only a first-hand observer would care to hazard an opinion as to the methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over...
...result that there is a necessity to study the forces of nature and of human nature. More and more the entire life of our time is being captured by forces of business and modern industries, and it is to understand these changes and movements one should have a first-hand acquaintanceship with industrial conditions...
...scenes of intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
...been said that a team on the field heeds not nor even hears the efforts of a cheering section. It may be so, but, lacking first-hand corroboration, I do not believe it. Ask any man of the Middle-bury team which played in the Stadium four years ago what that little group of howling manaics on the East side of the Horseshoe meant to him; ask the Harvard team of Saturday how much inspiration they drew from those speechless ranks on the West side...