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Which brings us to the real cause of the condition about which Mr. Taft is so bitter. In the last quarter of a century, long after Mr. Taft was weaned from his alma mater, the great bulk of college graduates have found their livelihood not in the so-called learned professions, but in business. At the same time they have been under an ever increasing pressure to identify themselves with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that...
...clearly in the interest of efficiency that the teacher should receive a stipend adequate to the needs of the civilized life, one which will enable him to give his time and thought to fulfilling the demands of his position, free from the hampering necessity of supplementing his livelihood by miscellaneous earnings. The only way in which this can be done on a large scale, and in the long run, is by an increased charge upon the student. The New Republic...
...Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million carloads of autos, trucks, parts, tires...
...this resolution, the 400 of music pointed with scorn at the talking cinema. Small is the loss of their livelihood, said the 400, compared to the incalculable loss which the public must suffer from "canned music." Gone will be all chance for U. S. youth-culture; gone will be all appreciation for artistic renditions. Mechanical, soulless music will pervert and deaden the public musical sense. The resolution continued...
...Electives released yesterday, Economics continues to be the favorite field of concentration for the Freshmen, with English coming second, and History third. As a rule, there seems to be a tendency for Freshmen to concentrate in fields which prepare directly for a graduate school or for earning a livelihood...