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...messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There is no answer. The one who asks these questions lacks that spirit of adventure which the other possesses. What is unutterably boring to one is the most exquisite pleasure to the other...
...Another answer to the old query, "What is the matter with the colleges?" is proposed by a Bryn Mawr alumna in a recent communication to the Nation. She answers it with another question: "where is the whole panorama of college and university life in America today among men as well as women, is the courage and mental grasp to see what that is new in a rapidly changing world needs championing and support?" In humbler but more outspoken phrasing, she charges the colleges with conservatism and blindness to the radical movements of the country. Such a suggestion is refreshingly unconventional...
...then, it may be asked, has the United States for so long maintained a "favorable" balance sheet and been an exporting country? The answer is that the difference in value of the goods exchanged has been made up in various 'invisible" ways. Among these are the permanent drain of money (purchasing power) in the form of remittances of immigrants to the "old folks at home", and the sums spent by American tourists for "services" (eg. transportation, hotels, etc.). But by far the largest item is that for "services" in carrying our goods abroad in foreign bottoms, for which...
...possible intersectional games should be eliminated from the football schedule, for several reasons. The first is that it is inevitable that the system of always playing at home cannot be adhered to without arousing a harmful amount of antagonism. "Well," ask some, "why not play return games?" The answer is to be found in the increasing demand, not from other colleges so much as from Harvard's own graduates, to play in every part of the country. If all the graduates are to be pleased the result would be that the team would play half its games away from Cambridge...
...certain changes have taken place in the competitive system which are the cause of the August Senior's contempt for present-day compets, and which at the same time are the answer to the above-mentioned faculty point of view. The change came largely as the result of high casualty rates among compets. The public attention which attached itself to these casualty rates, though it caused much hard feeling at the time, was a good thing in bringing about alterations in the competitive system. Slavery has been abolished; compets now have a few rights as students which their bosses must...