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Lieutenant John Cowperwaite Tyler, S.B., '17, who has been reported as ***** missing since Sept. 25, 1918, when he took part in an air raid over Germany, died overseas; his grave has recently been identified. Tyler enlisted in the Air Service June, 1917, training first in the Ground School at M. I. T., where he graduated near the top of his class, and later at other schools in France. He was attached for some time to a French escadrille for bombing duty, and then assigned to the command of a United States Squadron. Tyler received his brevet...
...rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...
...history and international law not only as subjects of study by the student body but as objects of reform by the college authorities. He emphasizes in particular the need for studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias to enter into the teaching of the story of the past; it is compelling the student to view...
...managing employer, in the spirit of what he considered to be true democracy, had granted his employees the right of access at all times to the "front-office", for the purpose of voicing their complaints. In the course of his investigation, however, the visitor soon learned of several grave industrial abuses, to correct which no discoverable attempt had ever been made. Upon inquiring of the owner the meaning of this apparent inconsistency, the latter replied, "How was I to know that these conditions existed? No one ever made any complaint...
...held only when conditions demanded has been replaced by a plan involving a series of camps, which will begin every month and which will largely depend, for enrolment, upon members of the S. A. T. C. The problem of officering our rapidly increasing military forces has long been a grave one; the extension of the draft ages has made it all the more serious. The new system offers a definite method of solving the problem, and as such deserves the strong support of the entire student body...