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...Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association has just been formed, of which the University, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton are the charter members. The purpose of this Association is the "encouragement of trapshooting in colleges and universities, and the creation of competition among the members." This year the provisional President will be appointed by Yale, the Vice-president by Princeton, the Secretary by Dartmouth, and the Treasurer by Harvard. A graduate secretary will also be chosen, who will be an alumnus of one of the member colleges...
...distress may be caused, few strikes can succeed without the backing of public opinion. As soon as popular sentiment has crystallized one way or the other, the strike is won or lost. Consequently, not only the most expedient but the faired dissaray of eliminating strikes would be by the creation of a government board of experts with full power to investigate industrial disputes and publish broadcast its findings. If this board consisted of experts of unimpeachable fairness--men like the late Henry D. Endicott--trusted by capital and labor alike, its recommendations would decide the issue. For either the employers...
...prohibit strikes by law would be un-American; to continue with no agency for promoting industrial peace is suicidal. Only through the creation of a board with compulsory powers of investigation will the germs that breed industrial strife be destroyed. And with such a board functioning, the menace of strikes based on ignorance, misrepresentation, and falsehood would be removed; and industrial justice, one of the great promises of American life, would be measurably nearer fulfillment...
...Curiously enough, those who were most eager for the program of an ambitious League were the first to criticise the creation of such commissions and their tasks. But if one of the chief objects of such a League is to promote world peace, surely the Franco-German frontier is an important point for it to watch. And if the League can ease the tension here by acting as a sort of shock-absorber, protecting at the same time the property rights of France and the personal rights of the inhabitants, it will serve another interest no less important than peace...
...literally gave his life in the cause for which during the last eleven years, he had made such a gallant and successful fight. The great buildings on the Cambridge bank of the Charles are his monument, the rank of Tech as the greatest scientific school in the country, his creation...