Word: lands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contents are not above average merit, judging them by the standards of undergraduate composition. Of the three poems, the most ambitious and decidedly the best is "Nobody's Land." One passes indifferently over the trite "heart-story" which lies behind this rhapsody and forgives Mr. Jopling some melodramatic lines, content to find in him true appreciation of the great western desert and a gift of expression which sometimes reaches eloquence. There is nothing to praise, in Mr. Murdock's effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes...
...women voters of California succeeded in putting through the last legislature a minimum wage bill, with the power to enforce; an endowment bill for teachers; and a home rule and taxation bill which relieves the farmers of exorbitant taxation on property and puts some of it on idle land. They also succeeded in passing a child-labor law which prohibits a child under 18 years of age from working for more than eight hours...
...Grenfell will speak in the Living Room of the union on Tuesday evening. October 28, at 8.15 o'clock. Doctor Grenfell has been procured for this address through the efforts of several of the College men who were with him on his boat and at the New found land Mission this summer. A definite subject has not yet been announced, but any talk that Dr. Grenfell may give cannot fail to interest the members of the University...
Some months ago the Co-operative Society purchased a tract of land near its present building, and it is expected that a large addition to the store will be begun before long. The Directors also have planned for the erection of a new front on the Co-operative store, and this new front will probably conform in general design to the Brattle Building, which has recently been erected along side...
...preparation for the first duty every youth in the land should serve a year in the regular army under strict discipline which would make a man of him as well as a soldier. The right to vote should be deemed a duty and enforced by law. Those unfitted should be excluded from the suffrage. The jury is our most abused institution. It is a duty shirked by the most intelligent citizens and left to men unfitted to perform the office. Lastly, taxation needs reform...