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Real living costs can be reduced in but two ways, either through increasing production or through decreasing consumption. For consumers merely to divert their demand to new channels can have no effect on prices in general. So long as the public continues to spend all it makes, prices will stay up. Economizing through wearing overalls may slightly reduce the price of other clothes, but if the amount so saved is spent on other goods,--food, automobiles or diamond rings--the prices of those articles is bound to rise in response to the increased demand. Only through greater production and general...
This change, which will take effect next year, will have the result of increasing the number of fields of engineering in which men may specialize during their undergraduate course at the Engineering School from seven to nine. Already the school has programs of study in civil, mechanical, electrical, and sanitary engineering, in mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. Now students will also be given an opportunity to undertake a special course of work in electric communication so as to fit them for the wide opportunities in the telegraph, telephone, and radio-telegraphic industries, and for research and invention in the whole...
...possible should be persuaded to cultivate war gardens. That was one means of adding a small margin to our food supply, to the end that a little more flour and meat could be spared to feed our friends across the ocean. Now that the war is over, the chief effect of daylight saving will be to enable town people to spend a little more time in self amusement...
After careful analyses of the Cambridge water supply for the past two weeks, Dr. Roger I. Lee '12, M.D. '05, of the Department of Hygiene, yesterday issued a statement to the effect that there was no further necessity for boiling it before drinking...
...military preparation we should have must be considered in connection with the character of modern wars. Increased facility of transportation has shortened the time allowance of a nation under attack. It has also made possible mobilizations upon a gigantic scale; n weapons and new agencies more deadly in their effect and more complicated in their production and use have all to be considered; so that if it be conceded that the United States should have so much military preparation as is necessary to protect it against aggression, then it must be conceded that the preparation must be large enough...