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...result. The conference, although its effect is not visible, in any tangible form, contributed largely to intersectional and interinstitutional understanding. The student delegates from Illinois and other great state universities had an unprecedented opportunity to meet men fully representative of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., and other seaboard institutions. Men from the cast were afforded a chance to discuss matters of common interest with visitors from the middle-west and south. It was a time for the removal of many misapprehensions; the more so because the meeting was not one of rivalry, as is the case at East-West...
...population not equal to that of New York city. Our greatest danger is our unpeopled interior. We are in this respect in a position practically of that of the United States in the War of the Revolution. The bulk of our population is, as yours was, on the eastern seaboard. Australia therefore, welcomes immigrants wherever they may come from. We hope to fulfill the late Colonel Roosevelt's wise suggestion and 'fill up our waste spaces...
...this reason many parents throughout the western and southern states thought it best to send their boys to one or other of the older institutions in the East. But the difference in equipment and in scholastic standards is no longer very marked; yet the endowed institutions along the Atlantic seaboard, Harvard in particular, continue to draw from these western and southern areas just as many recruits as ever...
...second cruise begins today and will have as its objective some port on the Atlantic seaboard. The third and fourth will soon follow so that by June 25 all men enrolled in the University naval courses will have received at least some practical experience on the water. During the summer it is planned to use the boat for instruction in connection with navigation courses offered by the University Summer School...
...constantly recurring strikes in the ship-yards of the Atlantic seaboard present serious obstacles to our naval program. The demand for ships has never been greater than now. Figures just made public demonstrate that the U boat has outrun the combined efforts of English and American ship-yards by three to one. New ships in vastly increased quantities must be had if this year is to see the tide turn. Yet the unpatriotic action of a large part of our workers at the present time threatens this all-important artery of our war machine. Whether walkouts have been inspired...