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...humour and music the manager offered Ted Lewis, which statement is quite sufficient unto itself; his saxophone and his wit are still in first-rate repair. And as the prettiest girl of the evening, we vote for Bird Millman, who left us all "Up in the Air" over her slack-wire dancing...
...majority of the professors realize this; yet there are those who either refuse to accept or else misunderstand their present position. Too many undergraduates this year have had their final marks lowered because the professor felt that their slack attendance was sufficient cause for "discipline"--because he refused to recognize the fact that the responsibility for their collegiate behavior was no longer in his hands. It is disheartening, to say the very least, after passing a course fairly, and with no summons from the Office, to have one's grade lowered at the insistence of an instructor who considers that...
Jack Donahue, the feather-footed dancer from the "Follies", exhibited his limberness to an enthusiastic audience, nor was his patter the least amusing part of his act. His unexpected appearance during the slack wire exhibition of the Levolos added a needed touch of humor to an otherwise ordinary performance. J. Rosamond Johnson and his five negro kings of syncopation strummed their banjos and pounded the keys in the noisiest and most approved style, to the satisfaction of their good-natured listeners. The other skits and song-and-dance acts, however, were hardly up to the usual Keith level...
Especially in these times of slack work, still further to cut down the demand for our manufactured products by creating a big merchant service will disorganize our industries to a dangerous degree. In any case, no matter what the conditions of trade, or with what countries, our exports can always be increased by letting our creditors carry the goods for us. Therefore, why a merchant marine? WM. R. BREWATER...
...modern closed shop is an efficient shop. The restrictions on apprenticeship of former times were due to a necessity for maintaining a high quality of output. With modern introduction of machinery, these restrictions are rapidly disappearing. The charge that closed shop men "slack" on the job can be applied to all labor. The open shop drive system does more to injure industrial efficiency than...