Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York of the present time. Miss Crothers' comedy is in three acts and narrates the story of a young girl from the West who comes to New York to make her fortune. She takes up quarters at a fashionable boarding house, "39 East," where only the "best people" resort. There are very many quaint and unusual characters in the comedy...
There is a minority of undergraduates to whom the routine of study is a positive joy. But for the majority, studying remains a chore; something to be turned to as a last resort under the stress of compulsion. A thesis or examination is like a disagreeable pill which one avoids taking until the last moment, and then swallows with one gulp and forgets as soon as possible...
...vexed questions now facing the country as the result of the conflict between capital and labor; its only real constructive force is that it aims to create special industrial courts to decide industrial matters. Such a system would bring us nearer an equitable settlement of disputes without resort to strikes. But an industrial court is not enough; definite principles in the form of a code are needed. The conference did not show where the line is to be drawn between industries whose maintenance is essential to the life of the nation and in which strikes cannot be tolerated, and those...