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...societies are also holding a conference this evening at 7.45 at the City Club, Ashburton place, to which all Engineering students are invited. Mr. Farley Osgood of the Public Service Electric Company will speak on "Large Turbo-Generator Units from the Operator's Standpoint." Other prominent engineers will be present and take part in the discussion...
...still more effective, penetrating talk the following morning by Dr. G. Sherwood Eddy, which made a still more favorable impression and which, together with other phases of the closing sessions, sent even the few dissatisfied delegations away Sunday night, not perhaps with a complete change of their standpoint, but with deep and openly expressed appreciation of the fundamental values given by the Convention...
...exist, in this country. The workingman is everywhere in the world dissatisfied with his lot. The difference in Japan is that we are seeking for a more humane solution of the problem than has been arrived at elsewhere. Here you have attempted to settle it from the materialistic standpoint alone, while in Japan our effort is to make the capitalist look at the labor question from the human standpoint. There must be a compromise between the two contending forces which will satisfy both and give neither an overwhelming advantage over the other...
...This year, we have again continued the rating of all of the Freshmen from a standpoint of bodily mechanics. This aspect of the work was inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown, and he has kindly continued supervision of it. The method of rating is as follows. The individual's feet are carefully examined and he is questioned as to possible previous trouble with his feet. We have discarded the former and now exploded idea that a man's feet can be judged purely on the basis as to whether the arch is high, low, or flat...
...There is one great advantage in such a form of training which, to my mind, is overlooked by most people. The military standpoint monopolizes the field of vision. They fail to perceive the fact that through this system of training the Government would come into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months...