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Sales to graduates and undergraduates will be made by application until June 9. Blanks may be obtained at the Harvard Alumni Association, 50 State street, Boston; the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth avenue, Boston; and at the Union, Leavitt and Peirce's, and the Cooperative in Cambridge. There will also be a sale to graduates at 50 State street on June 14, from 9 to 4 o'clock, and at the '77 Lodge Gate on Class...
...doubtless do much to standardize and strengthen the military work now being done in the colleges and thus lead to greater effectiveness in the preparation of men for national service. Delegates have been sent by the College of the City of New York, Connecticut Agricultural, Johns Hopkins, Rhode Island State, Rutgers, the University of Maine and Wesleyan. Others have been invited and are expected from Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Williams...
...Compulsory Work Law of New Jersey is the best known and the most comprehensive of the new acts, and differs radically from any previous economic legislation. All able bodied male residents of the state between the ages of eighteen and fifty years are required to be engaged regularly in some lawful and recognized employment, trade or profession until the end of the war. A minimum of thirty-six hours of labor a week is also set. But the law does not stop with the definition of the crime; it was enacted to be effective and severe penalties are included...
Furthermore, persons not engaged in work have no excuse before the courts because of inability to secure employment. Federal, state and municipal employment offices guarantee to all applicants suitable work. If by any chance such work cannot be provided, exemption cards are issued. In the allotment of positions preference is given to the more essential war-time activities, agricultural, shipyard and munitions work...
...loafer in peace times is a drag upon society. In war he is a parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...