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...meeting will attempt to review the present unemployment situation not only with regard to Cambridge in particular, but from a state and even nationwide standpoint. The talks, which will be followed by open discussion, will include both aspects of the problem...
...regard the bill as unwise from the standpoint of the veterans themselves and unwise from the standpoint of the welfare of all the people. . . . But of much graver importance is the whole tendency to open up the Federal Treasury to a thousand purposes. . . . Each of them breaks the barriers of self-reliance and self-support in our people...
From a purely American standpoint this feature of the Model League is regrettable as tending too much towards an unhealthy intellectualism...
...meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis of such study construct an activities schedule that will sell itself to the students so that their enthusiasm...
...movement. But among the magazines devoting space to literature and literary criticism, the quarterlies alone seem to aim high. Some of the monthly publications have openly turned native, and are now laboring under the naive principle that the raw facts of life are necessarily significant from a literary standpoint, regardless of composition...