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...with the social problem in the poverty aspect, we must go beyond maintaining charity organizations. We must stop importing poverty, and we must stop creating poverty, by making it impossible for the industrial organizations of our country to continue their present methods of securing cheap employment regardless of the effect upon the employed...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this prejudice is pointed out in two of the leading articles in this December issue. And new ideals of fore-college work...
...classes are advised to reject the proposed constitution in order to give an opportunity for this procedure. This resolution shall not come into effect if the two classes to vote on Tuesday ratify the proposed constitution...
...stating that the list of nominees which it submitted was not the most representative possible was, first, because we believed this to be the case, and, second, because we wished to show the necessity of a provision for nomination by petition in the constitution The concluding statement to the effect that, provided the Council be formed, "the power will not be lacking" is, in view of the powers specifically granted by the new constitution and in view of past experience, too indefinite and unsupported a statement to warrant a reply...