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...rejecting by a vote of seven to two the nomination of Professor William Z. Ripley for membership on the minimum wage commission, the executive council acted as if it thought he were Professor Holcombe. Most of the criticism of Ripley would fit the prevailing estimates of Holcombe and his work on this body. Doubtless the latter did much to create the atmosphere, as to colleges and college professors, which has reacted against the Governor's latest nominee...
...years both Harvard and Yale have conducted their athletic training along the wrong lines. He said that he was proud of the athletes who have been sent into the Army, but that he was not proud of many more who have been sent but who are not physically fit, giving as the reason for this the fact that the colleges have had athletics for only a few instead of letting everyone into the game...
...seems to me that the greatest boon the war has already given to us in America is a realization that our men must all be physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...
...issue for military men, extending over a period of six months, and every 'Club privilege is possible with the sole proviso of cash paid for extra facilities enjoyed. Each card will bear the name of its holder, and on the back such information as the House Committee has seen fit to place there...
...other necessary armaments. The French and English, anxiously awaiting our artillery, have to give up their own in order to equip our expeditionary force, and will have to continue to do so for many months in the future. We are sending our troops over and letting the Allies fit them out with materials that would otherwise be used for their...