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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second type of Revolution, declared the Bishop, is the Industrial Revolution, which China is now experiencing. The problems connected with the adoption of modern machinery are much the same as in the period of the English Industrial Revolution. Western commercialism has caused a rise in prices, and has introduced the problems of trade organization, child labor, and sanitation. The Standard Oil Company has a very efficient organization, whose means of communication with the interior are superior to those of the government...
...best composition in concerted choral music. The composition must be for four or more voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment, the text being either secular or sacred, as the composer prefers. Mr. Boot's bequest recommends that, if the music be of a sacred character, the type shown in Cherubini and Mozart be followed...
Since this is so, and since Massachusetts is so richly supplied with institutions offering every conceivable variety of training, it is an open question whether a State university, of the same type as those existing in other parts of the country would help the situation materially. A suggestion made by Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education seems to meet the facts. He points out that the real need for higher education at the public cost in the need of those who cannot afford to spend their time at an institution situated in any one spot. A State university...
...been made by the Women's Municipal League of Massachusetts, which makes its main purpose to "prepare women to fill positions now open to them in municipal and state departments." But such opportunities ought not to be limited to women alone. The need of men of a high type to make a business of politics instead of politics of their business was never more in evidence than today. As Colonel Roosevelt once put it, "to be effective in politics a man must make it his profession. An amateur politician is like an expert fencer trying to use a forty-five...
...scene he was at his best, and between them they held the audience laugh-bound with trivial turns of mood for a quarter of an hour. It was a satisfaction to have Mr. Wingfield in the company again. His range is narrower than Mr. Clive's, but in the type of part which he has in this play--that of the puzzled father--he would be hard to surpass. The others did equally careful characterizing, and when Mr. Jewett called on each member of the company in turn for a curtain-speech, their gracious words won merited rounds of applause...