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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college education to a student consists, not in the abundance of opportunities he neglects, but in those of which he takes advantage. From colleges in different parts of the country have been heard general complaints that students not engaged in professional work have far too little desire for sound scholarship, and slender respect for those who work hard; while athletic triumphs are regarded as of vast importance. Now, it is a very significant fact that this condition is not due in the main to a sincere belief that prowess in sports is intrinsically of greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost...
...remove these causes entirely. A removal of the protective tariff would accomplish this by lowering not only wages but the cost of construction and operation. This would give us an American merchant fleet, not by an enormous expenditure on subsidization but by putting the shipping industry on a sound business basis. A removal of the tariff would give us a naval reserve, for it would cause the withdrawal of $2,000,000 of American money from the foreign shipping to the American registry. Looking at the question from a purely political point of view, removal of the tariff...
...work of the committee so far, then, appears to be well considered and practical, and the suggestions for further changes sound plausible. The committee is right in taking plenty of time to consider carefully each change and its effect, and the present development indicate that the final regulations will prove satisfactory...
Physics. -- *Elementary Experimental Physics for Teachers, Mr. E. L. Chaffee and Mr. H. C. Hayes; *Experimental Physics; Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Light, Magnetism, and Electricity, Dr. P. W. Bridgman; Advanced Experimental Work, Professor W. C. Sabine and Dr. P. W. Bridgman...
...many things at once, with the result that no single point is very forcibly made; but the essay is clearly written and is worth reading--which is more than can be said for most criticisms of this remarkable play. Mr. McGowan's summing-up of "The Witch" is, whether sound or not, a first-rate piece of work, for it points out clearly the faults of the play without making the reader any less interested in seeing it for himself. Dr. Kallen's essay on the cinematograph is a valuable reminder that the moving-picture show whatever we may think...