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...North Negroes live in segregated districts . . . high rents, lack of sanitation, breaking down of family life. . . . When a Negro leaves the South he leaves his skill behind. He must take a job of a different kind . . . there is no cotton to pick in the North. . . . The bulk of the Negro population is still in the South . . . [they] must be tended at their source . . . 8,000,000 ... a staggering problem...
Roger W. Babson, statistician, big-business-builder, efficiency expert, lately declared: "Higher education today is living in a fool's paradise." He represented that most of his business acquaintances viewed college-trained job-seekers with actual alarm. To find out if this could be generally true, President Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President...
...love my job as a schoolmaster, but I am not going to take responsibility for the development of those things in youth which are left undeveloped by the breakdown of other institutions. ... It is easy for teachers to worry too much about the moral status of their pupils. Remember, the clay leaves your hands at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. On its way home many fingers get into that clay. Then at home the parents get their hands into it. Next morning you may not recognize...
...What we seen to do," Professor Williston said in part, "is to teach the best law in the best way. And this job of searching for the best is expensive. We've got to have more buildings, we've got to have more lecture rooms, we've got to have more teachers, if the Faculty is to continue to develop the best that is in each student...
...even exceptional laws ridiculous. The fault however, does not lie with Mr. Finley of Kansas but with those who have given the cause for so justified an attack. We hope his lesson will be taken to heart by law-makers who fail to realize that theirs is a serious job. Law enforcement is difficult enough...