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...third element which deserves consideration is the impetus which this action will give to labor organizations. The prestige which the addition of the nation's educators will give the Federation of Labor is not to be ignored. It is a significant fact that that organization is pushing this movement to the limit. But unless our professors see an advantage in refusing to read a book or give a lecture whenever the Federation of labor chooses to call a general strike, it is difficult to see how the profession itself will gain from such an alliance. A federation of teachers unassociated...
...Training, especially that of diet, is more essential in the development of point-winners among the track and field representatives than in either of the other two spring athletics. Although the individual athletes have developed steadily throughout the season, there has been but little advance made in arousing that element most necessary to success in all sports, and so difficult to attain in the case of track: team spirit. In this affair of morale, the training table is fully as vital as to crew or baseball...
...organization of college coast artillery units is a fundamental part of the new scheme of the defense of the United States sea coast. The plan provides for radical changes in the coast defense policy of the government, so as to include as its basic element the utilization of railway and tractor ordnance of heavy calibre, linking the strategic points on he coast with existing railway systems. By means of the railroads and military roads capable of supporting heavy motor tractors, the whole system of defense will be changed from a static to a mobile one. For the officering of this...
These few years allow them to determine their tastes and to direct their forces so that when they do step' into the active world no time need be lost in adjustment. However, this very seclusion renders the collage graduated unfamiliar with that very important element of competition. The ability to compete seems to be one of the cardinal rules of getting...
...Such an element of unassimilated material within the nation is a dangerous liability. That part which is desirous of accepting America for better or for worse should be given every encouragement and opportunity to do so, but those who are here for other purposes, boding ill to American institutions, should be eliminated at once. These two divisions of the "foreign" element require of us education and deportation respectively. Until these two problems are solved, however, a third measure is immediately necessary. It is the rigid restriction or prohibition of immigration for the next few years. Each time such a bill...