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...evening of January 17, the Liberal Club will have as its guest the Honorable W. Cameron Forbes '92, Governor-General of the Philippines under President Taft and a member of the recent investigating commission. With first-hand knowledge gained from his great experience in the islands. Mr. Forbes will discuss some political aspects of the Philippines...
...several years before the advent of prohibition, Mr. Woods served as License Commissioner of Boston and was thus enabled to acquire accurate, first-hand information on the subject. "At that time", he stated, "the liquor interests did a business of 42 million dollars annually, whereas the illegal traffic at present cannot possibly be more than four or five million a year...
...strikebreaker on the railroads for nine weeks during the strike this fall. Mr. Williams received first-hand information as to the rail situation. "One of the leading causes of the strike was the sudden calling off of the men's standing as railway workers, and the disregarding of seniority and priority rights by the practice of farming out the shopwork. On 19 different line shop-work was thus contracted out to dummy corporations, and as a result of this the workers on other roads feared that their standing and rights would also be nullified later, unless they made a protest...
...against which the conditions, as they really are, can be more clearly seen and understood. The program calls for an extensive tour of Europe, including stops at the principal cities, where the party will meet leaders of political and economic thought, and get from them a great deal of first-hand information, with which they will supplement their reading...
Speaking, however, from first-hand observation, we have so far failed to observe him wandering hatless and abstracted about the Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses...