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...last gesture before the advancing front of commercialism. Just as the great London papers penetrated Wales and threatened its native tongue, so must the efficiency of mass production inevitably break down the barriers of custom and nationality. Protective tariffs imposed merely to support an interior industry are economically unsound; a confusion of dialects clogs the channels of trade and diplomacy. The radio, moving pictures, artistic advertising, all the weapons of modernity, are weapons as well of internationalism. Whether they compensate for the colorfulness of unhygienic custom and inefficient quaintness must remain an academic question for the antiquarian and tourist...
...advent of an educational experiment has removed an unsound, unhealthy arrangement. Freedom from tutorial conferences has forced the student to enter the mid-year exams as an uncoached amateur, but it has permitted the tutor, who would ordinarily be, if not stormed, at least beset by pleas for assistance, to give undivided attention to his own work. The definite knowledge that many of the faculty are turning the period to purposes that will later have a published reality, may be not unjustly interpreted as evidence that the majority are doing so. Books yet unborn will stand as testimony...
...Burns will state his convictions about current peace movements, which he considers useless, as they are "fundamentally unsound. They don't deal with the selfishness and savagery of our present industrial system, which lies at the root of all wars. It is ridiculous to scratch the surface and try to improve it if that below is unsound," he said...
...Government price fixing is known to be unsound and bound to result in disaster," he said. "A Government subsidy would work out in the same way. It cannot be sound for all of the people to hire some of the people to produce a crop which neither the producers nor the rest of the people want...
Said Hugo Newman, Principal of the school: "She had begun to deteriorate . . . her work was both technically and temperamentally unsound. . . ." Said William J. O'Shea, Superintendent of Schools: "The least we could do for Miss Byrne was to give her a chance to recover. When she did not recuperate quickly it was suggested to her that she retire on pension. That she refused to do. Finally, in October, the Board of Education recommended to the Teachers Retirement Board that she be placed on pension. The matter is now before that board. It is unfortunate, and I wish we could...