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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is nothing about which to be discouraged in our government. Anything looks black when you hold it up against the blazing light of Utopia; but it will look only marred if held where that light will shine upon it. Take for instance the impregnable jungle of our protective tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol...
...clash between the best set of forwards in college hockey (as Princeton's four is practically acknowledged to be) and the Harvard defence, should alone present the Canadian game in its very prettiest form. Even those who are indifferent as to the outcome, provided the sport is good, look forward to one of the most interesting games of the winter...
...there would still be many railroad companies. The danger of unprogressive management throughout the railroad industry is, therefore, slight. But in industry, the danger of unintelligent and ineffective management, the besetting weakness of a long continued monopoly, is too great to allow one, except as a last resort, to look with favor upon the establishment of a system of state regulation through an industrial commission. While it would probably prove effective as a means of preventing extortionate charges by monopolies, it might also create conditions favorable to the continuance of monopolies regardless of the efficiency of their management...
When men pride themselves on being the wage-earners of the world, they over-look the fact that in the United States alone there are over seven million women who are earning their own living. If fitness to vote is tested by obedience to the law or by the sense of responsibility to citizenship, women have proved by statistics of crime and by the equal suffrage elections in California that they are even more fit to vote then...
...health, and good health is largely dependent on hard, daily exercise. In many colleges it is not uncommon to make some kind of exercise compulsory throughout the year. At Harvard, however, it is generally considered that men have reached that age of discretion when they are able to look after themselves...