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...possible, however, to increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn out in our eight, nine and ten hour days as much as the founders of our country once did in twelve, thirteen and fourteen. The demand for shorter and shorter hours is thus the natural accompaniment of our industrial development. It furthermore puts continual pressure on the employers to keep their plants at the highest possible pitch of efficiency...
...poems, my own taste prefers Mr. Sedgwick's sonnet, which is far superior to the average run of Advocate poetry--of the recent past at any rate; and if Mr. Dobson's maintained for its will fourteen lines the swing and dash of its second quatrain, it too would deserve a place in the same high class...
PRINCETON, N. J., June 1, 1921.--Hitting the Colgate nine for fourteen singles and profiting by loose field work, Princeton won over that team this afternoon 10 to 2. Jeffries, pitching for the Orange and Black, allowed only four hits. McNamara, Princeton outfielder, led the attack with three hits in three times at bat. The batteries: Princeton: Jeffries and Fisher; Colgate: Leonard and Barnes...
...Trophy Room of the Union. Professor J. L. Coolidge '95 and W. G. Brocker '22 are the nominees for Commandant. Professor Coolidge is the present holder of this office. Professor K. G. T. Webster '93 is also up for re-election as Historian. Only seven of the fourteen nominees for the Executive Committee will be chosen. The complete list of nominations, upon which all members of the Shannon Post and associated American Legion posts can vote, is as follows...
Only $120 has been contributed to date for the support of the University section of the American Students' Reconstruction Unit in France this summer. This was announced yesterday by the Executive Committee of the University section. The fourteen members of the University chosen to accompany the Unit to France need at least $2500 to cover the expenses of the trip. And unless this amount is raised by June 1, only a small percentage of the fourteen will be able to go. This group will include a few who can pay their own way and those whom the Reconstruction Association proper...