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...recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin published an article on the Trade Union College which has just been opened in the High School of Practical Arts in Boston. This college is under the auspices of the Boston Central Labor Union which is composed of 50,000 workmen residing in and about Boston, and any member of the Union may take courses there. The lectures are to be held at night, and each course will cost the student $2.50. The proximity of the University and its well earned record for constructive liberal thought has caused the Central Labor Union to appoint...
...Northfield Conferences were started forty years ago with the object of affording an opportunity to members of different colleges and universities to meet and discuss together the problems common to all. They are held each summer under the auspices of a central committee, and are of a religious character. The problems discussed are all those which affect the growth and welfare of colleges, with the general aim of moral and educational progress through the co-operation of representative students of the various institutions. The business of the Conference goes on in the morning and evening, leaving the afternoon free...
...present the future of the Union is undecided, but there seems no doubt but that it will become a permanent institution. It is merely a Question as to whether it will be developed into a central information bureau for all university men abroad, supplying general advice on living in France and holding regular meetings, receptions, and dinners, or whether it will become an ordinary university club with rooms and restaurant, and a permanent resident representative of American universities as a whole. At any rate, the main object of the Union from now on will be to promote research by American...
...eliminate this serous possibility of an over-supply of officers in some branches, and an under-supply in others, some definite form of proportioning must eventually be resorted to, which of course implies a control over schools by a central authority that is non-existent at the present time. As the quotation given previously suggests, the University is large enough to maintain a number of units representing the different divisions of service. However, for the sake of thoroughness and efficiency, smaller schools would necessarily be limited in the number of different units which they could profitably estabish...
President Lowell and Senator Lodge are relatively of the same attitude on the League of Nations as were Webster and Hayne in their famous debate over the theory of "states' rights." In his life of Webster, Senator Lodge says that Webster's argument on the supremacy of the central government was historically unsound. He asserts that in 1787-88 "there was not a man in the country . . . who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the states, and from which each and every state had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very...