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...understands fully that powerful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their power to manipulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their movement by the democracy of the American Republic...
...effective secondary education must not be minimized. Dartmouth's new requirements do not aim to minimize it. Applicants for admission must still have had four years of secondary work and certain English and mathematics. But for the rest, it is left for the accredited preparatory schools to fix their own requirements. This is important. Secondary schools should be more distinctive; less purely subservient to the colleges. For a headmaster of high calibre knows what is the best training for young boys, and it is undesirable for him to be hampered. If he is not, the chances are that more...
...organum" if ever the sun shone on anything new. We read that the teachers are rushing to affiliate themselves with this branch of the Federation of Labor; that "teachers in and about Boston, including professors at Harvard University", organized the "Greater Boston Federation of Teachers" whose purpose is to fix a minimum salary and procure adequate retirement laws...
...citizen army is strangely reminiscent of Mr. Bryan. Physical training in schools and colleges is essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...been postponed until after the Easter vacation and will not be held this evening as was formerly announced. This change is due to the fact that the selection for speaking may be changed in accordance with the wishes expressed by several of the candidates. It has been impossible to fix a date for the final contest which would ordinarily come during the time set for this year's Easter vacation. The times of the preliminary and final contests will be announced later...