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...purpose, I judge, is to deal with the problem of general unemployment, not with those local and sporadic instances of unemployment which result from such causes as changes in production methods or the geographical shifting of industries. Business booms, crises, and depressions are not entirely a thing of the past, and, unless we learn how to control business activities better than has been done heretofore, the problem of general unemployment will arise again acutely as it did in 1921, 1908, and other periods of business depression. Heretofore resort has been had to soup kitchens, special commissions and conferences, and much...
Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at the point of recovery, when recovered by the defensive team...
...observable. Market quotations sprouted a universal crop of minus signs. In a day's trading General Electric was-off 12½ points, Westinghouse 10?, Case Threshing 10½, International Harvester 6?, U. S. Steel 6¼. An average of 100 representative stocks declined 3.26 points. The Exchange closed Saturday, allegedly as the result of an influenza epidemic whose peak had long since passed. Stocks reopened on Monday comparatively strong, however, showing a distinct recovery from their first disorderly retreat. Having had time for reflection, traders had apparently decided that sticks and stones would break their bones, but words would hurt them never...
Harvard lost a closely fought basketball game to New Hampshire University at Durham Saturday night by a score of 25 to 24, the winning margin being the result of a goal from the floor by Tilton in the last seconds of play...
...main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method of raising the standards of admission...