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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Again this year the National Municipal League will offer a prize of $100 called the William H. Baldwin Prize, to be given to the author of the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. The competition for this award has been opened, as usual, to any undergraduate student registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...
...proposition of closing New England colleges because of the coal shortage seems little short of pure ridiculousness. The Fuel Administration is expected to give its decision on this subject today, but if the administration is possessed of the intellect necessary for its work, it can return but one answer and that is in the negative. In the first place, nearly every college in New England is either directly or indirectly furnishing valuable aid to the Government in its military preparedness. This aid is essential, for the Germans are not through with attempting to sink transports. If the present program...
...colleges as a means of economizing coal in the present fuel crisis. Although the proposal had received considerable support from the conservation officials, the arguments put forth by the assembled presidents demonstrated that it would not be practical. Mr. Storrow is withholding his final opinion on the subject until today, but it seems improbable that he will order any limitation of the college sessions. "I am inclined to let the colleges run," he stated after the conference...
Despite the shut-minded opposition which all proposals on the subject met last year, Henry L. Higginson comes resolutely into the General Court with another petition dealing with the question of Sunday baseball. This time it is desired to legalize the playing of the game by soldiers and sailors who may enjoy turning to this healthy pastime during the odd hours on the Sabbath. The natural wisdom of providing these men with any and all sensibly planned opportunities for recreation, it is to be hoped will so appeal to the General Court that the legislature will not only admit...
...subject will never be given full justice until the inequality of our present Sunday laws has been reformed wherever inequality exists. As matters stand now, all those who can naturally afford to secure recreation on Sundays by motor trips, at country clubs and on private grounds are easily able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance...