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...mild form of socialism. All men cannot help themselves; state help is necessary. The old state of society is inadequate to the new. The invention of steam and improved machinery has changed the relations between employer and employee. The interference of the state was necessary in order to adjust these new relations which were crushing the working man and his family...
...Harvard management in regard to the financial part of this game. It seems that in arranging for the game at Cambridge a telegram was sent promising one half the receipts to our eleven, and also promising to pay one-half their expenses to Cambridge. When it came time to adjust the money matters the Harvard management would not admit that any such promise had been made, and it was not until the telegram was referred to that they finally decided to keep their agreement...
...Base-Ball Convention in bringing about a reduction in the size of the association with prospects of a further reduction, and thinks that this result shows to the inter-meddlers of the outside press, who have wished to dictate a reform in college athletics, that college matters will adjust themselves, that students have no desire to rush to unworthy extremes, and that college faculties are the best Judges of college affairs and the best ones to regulate college athletics...
...just going to get off a pun about suspension, when, looking up, I saw the Bulletin Board from the front of University come pegging along towards us. He gave me welcome, and then sat down to wipe the perspiration from his forehead, and adjust his wooden leg. Not knowing exactly how to enter into conversation with him, I began on a subject in which mankind takes universal interest at a first meeting, and never thinks of again, - the weather...
...calls. See him when, before he enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry...