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...Shawmut Boat Club will be the headquarters of the University carsmen until their return to Newell. This is situated near the Dover Street bridge on For Point Channel where there is at present approximately a half-mile of navigable water. Two shells were sent down Saturday, and the first practice of the season on open water will be late this afternoon with Coach Frank Muller accompanying the crews...
...come here to learn. Mr. Kerr said that in the course of his learning he had concluded that America was no longer the land of the pioneer. The people of the United States are not seeking land for settlement, nor are they seeking an increase in population through the channel of immigration. America is today approaching the same economic stage which England reached in 1840, when her manufactures surpassed her agricultural interests. Foreign trade will increasingly become the great interest of America...
...transition from school to college, from set tasks performed under a regular supervised assignment of time to a freer self-direction--a change in which many students are in danger of losing their bearings--becomes more difficult if in the meanwhile their attention has been turned into a different channel and the momentum has been lost...
Subways, of course, are always open to attack by doubters because of the danger of collapse and the difficulties of construction; but, as in the case of the Hudson River, Bering Strait, and the English Channel even, they would furnish the only possible way of bringing about land communication. Tunnels fifty miles in length are not built in a day, but it seems more and more probable that they will sometime be as familiar as the Brooklyn Bridge is now. Although man may never realize Jules Verne's imaginative story of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth...
...very sad and strange thing that the greatest and most powerful, as well as the most generous and humanitarian of peoples, should have been betrayed into shirking its plain duty of cooperation in world affairs through this splendid channel, the most hopeful ever created,--by the timorous conservatism and petty politics of a few men in the United States Senate. It seems likely that it will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world...