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...emotional outbursts, than elsewhere. But no part of her performance left any doubt as to her ability. Mr. Hickman carried his role of lover and murderer with very commendable restraint giving the spectator the satisfactory feeling of something held in reserve. Miss West by as the daughter, contrived to establish the necessary feeling of perplexity, and did not attempt to intrude her actions upon the audience. Miss Durand and Mr. Patton were inclined to over-acting. As a whole, the play is faithfully produced and cleverly acted. America should soon be demanding more of Benavente...
...action that will give Harvard a polo team is highly desirable. The government is offering a great opportunity to college men to learn to play polo. A small fraction of its initial cost presents the only obstacle. The government has done all possible through the Military Science Department to establish polo here. Whether or not there will be a team depends entirely on the college...
...glorification of college athletics has done much to establish the habit of athletics. It has also helped establish an illusion of life that makes harsh physical effort the thing; even after men go from the campus into business or the professions. . . . The vicious effect of it is this, that it tends to usurp all of one's waking hours and to cast them into activity, banishing that needed and delightful twilight zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine...
...much litigation is avoided. It is usually stipulated that the agreements reached by mediation do not create precedents, but apply only to the particular cases in hand. The neutral arbitrator, if he has the ability and inclination, may in the course of his work by discussion and education establish standards of justice and fair dealing in the employer-employee relation acceptable to both sides. These may form a sort of underwritten constitution of great practical influence upon the harmonious operation of the enterprise. The possibility of disputes and conflicts is greatly reduced when the parties, acting in good faith, gradually...
Industrial concerns which have adopted some form of industrial government such as here described find it advantageous to establish a department to supervise their relations with their employes and to represent them in litigation and negotiation. Positions are thus created for men who have been trained in economics, political science, law and business, and who have talent for negotiating, pleading, instructing and social service work...