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...possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their power to manipulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their movement by the democracy of the American Republic...
...unsettled conditions, other attribute it to the tendency in recent years toward too many social activities, while a few hold that the modern college student comes to his Alma Mater without any definite purpose and never acquired one, or as one editor puts it "college-bred seems to mean a four year's loaf." However, they all agree that it is a fact that college men and women are narrow...
...with a copy of "Snappy Stories" along with a few volumes by Washington Irving, Dumas, Dickens, Hardy, Maupassant, and ten to one he will take "Snappy Stories," not so much because he has never learned the difference but because it is the way of the times; he has been bred up to it by his environment. Yet after he has finished this kind of reading he has nothing to show for his time or reading and concentration, his mind merely becomes a sieve, a funnel where everything is poured in and passed out, and nothing retained. Like a field...
...Page has had a notable literary and diplomatic career. After studying at Washington and Lee University, he devoted himself to authorship, writing such well known books as "Marse Chan," "Two Little Confederates," "Bred in the Bone," and "Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Liberty." In 1913 he was appointed by President Wilson to the post of United States Ambassador to Italy, which he occupied with distinction until his resignation a few weeks...
...idea has occurred to us which we believe no one has hitherto suggested. Why not deport a few of our self-complacent radically conservatives? For, as a fellow-student remarked yesterday at the Union, it is these people who are the swamp in which the Red mosquito is bred. These are the people of the stamp of a certain mill owner who, to a delegation protesting against the occupational diseases resulting from his mismanagement, replied: "Don't tell me about it. It makes me feel too bad." Is not at least a part of the unrest pervading the world today...