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...When more of these intellectuals, especially college men, become interested in the labor problem and understand the working classes' aims, the solution of this country's labor problem will be much nearer than it is at present," concluded Mr. Blanshard...
...little consequence which of the two arguments is nearer the truth. There is a third explanation which is more appealing than either of the others, for it is based not on hypotheses put on statistics. The subects which, together with English, have gained greatest ground during the past three years are almost invariably cultural--History, History and Literature, Fine Arts, the Classics. On the other hand such more exact fields of concentration as Mathematics, Biology, and Geology, not to speak of Engineering Sciences, have increased in popularity little if at all. So runs the argument...
...seen last week regarding the future prospects of American business. The West is prosperous and optimistic; the East is prosperous but rather pessimistic and cautious. Which view is correct only time can reveal. But in cases where this contradiction in judgments has occurred before the East has invariably been nearer the truth. In the Spring of 1920 the stock market turned downwards and the West declared its fears ungrounded. But that Fall disastrous liquidation set in practically all over the country...
...students find the routine of regular atterdance and frequent questionershard to take. I say the professors find it equally vigorous. In England a well known teacher is net subjected to as great burdens of either large classes cr many courses as in America but I think this University approaches nearer the model of English colleges in that respect than any I have visited in this country...
...country's history when so little of sectional interest entered into the consideration of this question [the tariff]. The obvious necessity for maintaining a proper measure of protection to American industry and production in the face of chaotic industrial conditions following the War has unquestionably brought us nearer to a national solidarity on this issue...