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...course which is to be established at Tufts during the next half-year for the training of prospective directors of physical education is one which should receive wide-spread attention. The plan is to develop men who will be able to take charge of the physical education of both high school and college students. Too often this side of the educational field is turned over to directors who have no more than a vague idea of the work they are trying to accomplish...
...another column of the Crimson appears an interview in which Mr. Fechner, lecturer at the Graduate School of Business Administration, calls attention to the wide-spread misunderstanding that exists as to the aims of labor unions. So much publicity is given their discreditable acts, that their usefulness is often overlooked. Among the aims mentioned by Mr. Fechner, is the campaign to carry on educational work among the workers. Not only do the unions advocate compulsory education for children, free text-books and the extension of night schools, but they would have opportunities for study so widely offered that all labor...
...There are two wide-spread ideas about the war between Poland and Bolshevik Russia which I believe are not well founded," said Professor Robert H. Lord '06, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. Professor Lord has returned recently from a few months visit in Poland, where he had an opportunity to study at first hand the recent Polish war. He is a co-author with Dean Haskins of the book lately published by the Harvard Press: "Some Problems of the Peace Conference...
There is a wide-spread belief that wages should be fixed on a cost of living basis. This idea is pernicious and intolerable. It means putting progress in chains and liberty in fetters. It means fixing a standard of living and a standard of life and liberty which must remain fixed. America's workers cannot accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled...
...Even in this hour of wide-spread disillusionment and reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...