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...tradition is established, and any man who would obtain a desirable teaching berth must first obtain by hook or crook some sort of fancy degree. This would not be serious if such degrees were always sure hall-marks of a man's scholastic training and ability; but the more wide-spread the idea becomes that no man of science or letters is intellectually respectable unless stamped with some kind of badge or diploma, the more widespread will be the attendant corruption...
...purpose of the change was to cover the deficit and to increase the salaries of the professors. Over eleven hundred votes were cast and a 567-548 majority for the affirmative recorded. While these results are far from conclusive, the heavy voting indicates wide-spread interest. From the vote itself the fact that a majority voted for increased tuition is a sign of idealism at Princeton worthy of its noted graduate and president. But in our opinion the minority-were right--although for different reasons perhaps than those for which they voted. Granted that there are many men in college...
...University the added instruction which must invariably attach itself to any task of such merit. Advancing at its present high standard, there is no reason why its name should not reach to every corner of civilization, as that of its predecessor in England has already done. Printing has made wide-spread culture possible; it has also brought us the dime novel and the news-stand magazine; but its final vindication, will go unchallenged so long as there is in existence an extensive machinery for the publication of that rara avis--a good book...
Years ago, Boston had an opera company of its own, that had a wide-spread reputation for meritorious work. However, through characteristic Boston indifference, this company was allowed to disintegrate and since then, local music lovers have been perforce contented with occasional barnstorming tours of the Chicago Association, or with the inferior performances of mediocre troupes, singing in English...
...question arises whether the condition can be corrected with new legislation. Is this the real crisis of the amendment, or is it merely an unavoidable halting point in the adjustment of the law to the situation? Does the illicit sale and wide-spread use of spirits prove that national prohibition is something which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that...