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...question of denying admission to the country to aliens is by no means a minor matter concerning only the persons excluded. It is a subject of the gravest national concern. As Professor Chafee of the Law School has pointed out, the fundamental principle of free speech and the integrity of the First Amendment is affected by all laws and rulings concerning the rights of aliens; consequently when an Hungarian countess famous for her supposed revolutionary proclivities is denied her passports, the fact is not of importance only to her American friends and sympathizers; a principle of general social interest...
...Syracuse (N. Y.) Post-Standard: "The great expense of athletics causes concern in many colleges. . . . The Harvard Crimson regrets the emphasis placed on football. Inasmuch as the curtailing of football is the curtailing of the chief producer of revenue in college athletics, the Crimson advocates the endowment of athletics, as well as instruction. . . . This plan would not be popular. . . . Where the public is eager to pay, the trustees would not have much enthusiasm in searching for an endowment...
...passion of motor makers to improve their product, and do it in a hurry too, has created in Detroit deep interest in an lleged "mystery car," which is said to be revolutionary in design and about to be produced by a Detroit motor concern...
Perhaps no other phenomenon of the post-war college generation is of greater import than this disappearance of undergraduate concern in matters of politics, government, economics, and social justice. A decade ago the philosophy of liberalism possessed a powerful appeal to college men; even radicals like Scott Nearing and William Z. Foster had their adherents by the thousand. But the post-war period has thrown these ideals into the discard, and students now have turned to other fields of thought. If the students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, as so often is alleged, then these facts augur poorly...
...Graham concern has been active in the manufacture of motor busses, and fleets of Graham busses are now operating in many parts of the world. In Detroit about 140 Graham busses act as feeders to the municipal traction system of the city...