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...spirit of competition better fitted for stifling self-pity than that aroused by the various student activities in evidence at every large American university. If there ever was a time when the college graduate started "life with the false philosophy that the desirable thing is to do as little labor as possible", that day is passed. The modern student undoubtedly expects a good living, -- but not until he has earned...
...American drama have long wielded ferocious pens over the "growing commercialism" which is held mainly responsible for the inundating flow of more eye and ear entertainment. At the foundation of the Actors' Equity Association not long ago, there was an unusually indignant rustle of critic's paper, because "labor unions" were supposed to be interested only in the material side of life. This week, however, that organization has announced the establishment of an annual spring festival week during which the best plays of all nations and all time, regardless of expense, will find production...
...them pleasantly alarming. After promising all the display we are inclined to agree with the author that "the heart of the colleges is round;" that when we are told, for example, that Radcliffe representatives at an intercollegiate debate supported the affirmative in the question: "Resolved: that the recognition of labor unions by employers is essential to successful collective bargaining", all may not be rotten at the core. For, after all, somebody had to support the affirmative, and perhaps, as often happens in these contests there was a negative team at Radcliffe that looked at the question differently...
...Monday night, and proved to be still another of the many pieces which have held forth upon the Wilbur stage this season. In plot, in music and in cast, however, the show may be distinguished from its predecessors: in the first, through a rather vaudevillian mingling of Capital and Labor concord, patriotic tableaux, and half-humorous idealism; in the second, through two or three tunes which actually survive the evening as such; and in the third, through a list of characters none of whom has ever been heard of before...
...Federal activity in educatioin; the second has no such history behind it. The educational measure is not the discovery of any one individual, but a plan gradually matured after a century of experience. Literally millions of citizens, through such organizations as the chambers of commerce, the American Federation of Labor, and the National League of Women Voters, have asked that a Federal Department of Education be created and a seat given to a Secretary of Education in the Cabinet...