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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected. Even before the war the practical arts were in the ascendancy. Now as a self-evident result of the war they are still more in the ascendancy. It is not an unhealthy condition, and it will not be a positively unhealthy condition until the liberal arts colleges show actual losses...
Records of 62 institutions show a like increase. From 130,630 students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
...Italian government wishes to reconcile America, it must show that it intends to abide by the decision of the peace conference in regard to the Adriatic question, and that it is prepared to alter its policy as a result of the recent elections. The question of supplying raw materials and credit must depend largely on the improvement of Italy's precarious financial situation. As for d'Annunzio--we would like to see a drive started to raise funds for sending him and his army to capture Shantung for the Chinese...
...border an army large enough to cope with the situation. Also the Carranza government is clever enough to see the affect of American aggression on the European powers. Already suspicious of our motives because of the blind folly of the Senate in failing to ratify the Peace Treaty, any show of force on our part would turn their suspicion into hatred and fear. Moreover, the imprisonment of the United States consular agent, Jenkins, raises a nice question of international law and of the power of the Mexican executive to free Jenkins from the jurisdiction of the Puebla state court...
These statistics must show to the country at large as well as to college graduates the immense debt that is owed to the universities, and particularly to the teaching upon which every institution depends. Since 1905 there has been no increase in the salaries of the members of the Harvard Faculty. A man who has spent seven years in training receives only $1260 a year, an amount earned by the majority of day laborers. Now if over is the time to prove that "training the mind" is worth more to the community than "minding the train...