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...strange as it may seem Dean Hawkes also reports that "Columbia College has no ambition to develop the social side to the extreme of converting the College into a social club, or at best a finishing school for men". One is thus led to believe that the student body need entertain no fears that such a ridicuious measure as a course in "department and social conventions" will be added to the college curriculum for some time to come. Truly, the Columbia undergraduates would be the laughing-stock of the college world not to mention the general public were he forced...
...Must Develop Factory System...
...second problem is to develop industry under the factory system, while avoiding the evils of industrialism. Slowly but surely the mill and factory are taking the place of the village and household industries in China. But there are no labor laws, there are no restrictions of hours, there are no minimum wage guarantees, there is unblushing exploitation of the labor of children. The pace is set by foreign firms, closely followed by the Chinese employers themselves. One does not need to assert that there is only one side to this question in order to argue the point that herein lies...
...Just such are Economics A, English 41, and all of the elementary courses; but English A--as Mr. Gavit states, it is handicapped by that name--is a course more elementary in that it is more fundamental. The vision that it can give, and the faculties that it can develop, make it a necessary preliminary to all study. "It affords the framework and warp into which all the rest of his college and postgraduate work and intellectual acquisitions of his after life may be built and interwoven...
...fourth place the development of water power is not inseparably connected with the development of navigation on the St. Lawrence. The power can and should be developed now. The navigation will not come for years in the most hopeful aspect. The power can be developed more economically by private capital than by taxes levied on the people. The finances of Canada and the United States are in such condition that a government development of power could not come for many years. As the private capital is ready to develop the power offered by the St. Lawrence, why should New England...