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...past time the custom prevailed for examinations to be filed by the college, in order to permit reference to the papers in cases of doubt in awarding degrees, and to insure against mistakes in grading. Recently this practice has become something of a dead letter, as there is no longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind...
This schism in the ranks can ruin the A.F. of L., but not the labor movement. Vertical or industrial organization is most suited to modern conditions, where machinery is eliminating the need for special skill and makes all labor of about the same grade and value. If present developments continue, the C.I.O. may embrace all vertical unions, leaving the crafts to the Federation. While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join...
...feeble-minded the neurologists have a last, sympathetic word: "In a world which has much low-grade work to be done, there is still room for the people of low-grade mentality of good character...
With the innauguration of the new American-Canadian Collegiate League, a better grade of hockey is promised for this season than has been seen in college circles lately. In this league, made up of Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale in the United States and McGill, Queens, Montreal, and Toronto in Canada, each team will play on a home and home arrangement in its own division and then meet each of the other teams at least once...
...current renovation. In the meantime Economics seems to have picked up more men who would otherwise be taking the Holcombe course than has History. The fact that these three remain unchallenged is one of great importance. When it is observed that only one science course, Biology D, made the grade at all, it can be realized that general interest at present continues along a broader plane and that science still belongs to the specialist...