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...annual conference at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 14). The Service recommended that "an organized effort" be made to discourage business men and public officials from setting college education as criteria for employment. Instead of the present "overemphasis on purely intellectual occupations," let there be a "saner appreciation of the dignity of manual labor and other practical work." Universities should not lower their standards in order to maintain present enrolments...
...Certainly a formal association could have far more effect than a number of isolated individuals. When patriotism and national honor become sacred idols, as they do in times of imminent or actual war, many are constrained, for lack of moral support, to abandon the principles which they hold in saner moments. Such moral backing a Federation of resisters would give them...
There are two theories as to the sphere of activities for such clubs. The first and more passive one of having lectures on controversial questions and social problems is perhaps the saner and more beneficial method. It satisfies the desire for tolerance and free speech, but on account of its very passivity and sanity it fails to give the true radical a sense of striving towards the goal which will arise from the new order. The second method consists in actual participation in the reform movements by mass meetings of protest, presentation of petitions, or even furnishing bail for less...
HARVARD YALE Ferriter, r.f. l.f., Saner Merry, l.f. r.f., Dickson Huntington, c. c., Elliot Nevin, r.g. l.g., Nikkel Cary, l.g. r.g., Reese...
This is a system of athletic handling far removed from that in vogue at most American colleges. It offers much in the way of putting intercollegiate athletics on a far saner basis than they have been during the last fifteen or twenty years. One can only commend the Pennsylvania authorities for the courageous experiment they have undertaken. How it will work out will depend largely on the sincerity with which it is administered. If followed to the letter, it probably will result in Pennsylvania having to be satisfied with less efficient teams than some of those which have represented...