Word: cheapness
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...modern educational institutions of America and the end of that, training is "dying in the harness" or a comfortable but an idle and empty old age. This change in ideals is the natural result of an epoch which places Production above Humanity; which strikes a strident note of movies, cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These facts disclose a truly lamentable condition; they mean that Ruskin...
...standard of living of our people differs entirely from that of the native of India, China or even Japan. There is, therefore, a strong economic objection to cheap and inferior labor being admitted. We are solving the problem of developing both our temperate and tropical zones by white labor and are doing it successfully...
...question is a knotty one. We want cheap labor without its accompanying conditions. We want to eat our cake and keep it, too. A prompt decision is imperative
...have still another dealer. A cloth merchant has appeared in our midst, selling bolts of the most value "English" goods at a ridiculously cheap rate for these days of the H. C. L. The chance for a real barter here is too imposing to miss. Visions of imported tweeds and cheviots fascinate the youthful mind, and not until the "nominal payment" is made does bitter realization dawn. Verify, there is one born every minute. And as time goes on, human ingenuity will invent other bait for the fish; may we not shortly have the privilege of hailing the affable bootlegger...
...singing at Saturday's game of the parody song to the tune of "Meow" that has been practiced at recent mass meetings. Harvard has plenty of good football songs which are the equal, if not better, than those of any other college; it does not need to resort to cheap words set to a popular tune to sing at its games. It is a pretty bad state of affairs when Harvard has to go to the dance halls to find a football song. If "Harvardians," "Soldiers Field," "The Gridiron King," and the "Marseillaise" will not be songs enough to sing...