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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though silk raising is one of the most important industries of Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal...
...work is a heavy tax on, both the university officials and the student body. Men are kept back from advanced study until they possess the necessary key to unlock the storehouse of much knowledge. Considerable time, as well, is spent in elementary work that might better be done in lower schools where the mental discipline would be more keenly beneficial to younger minds, and where there would be no time taken from other more advanced subjects...
...questionable humor in a student comic magazine patently is an abuse of the freedom of the student press. The discrimination of editors in charge of these enterprises should be sufficient check on so-called "nasty jokes". Violations of propriety such as recently reported at Tech tend to lower the good standing of student publications, and to bring forth agitation in some quarters for strong faculty control of the press. Thus the matter of an ill attempt at wit may easily result in a complete gagging of freedom and prevent the desirable open expression of opinion which is at present such...
...reason for football being consistently lower than the other sports, probably the best answer that can be advanced is that in football there are more men who come to college to engage in their chosen activity than in any other major sport in the College. Track men noticeably, and baseball and crew candidates to a lesser extent, are drawn from men who come to college without big reputations in their preparatory schools...
...rowing is concerned, the filling in of the shores will not seriously shorten the courses in the lower Basin, and the substitution of a sloping beach for the present granite wall will reduce the rough water which reflects back from this wall on account of the prevailing westerly winds...