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...sense a finishing school for the average business man. For while the practice of the law not infrequently opens business opportunities into which men may stop and find their legal training of invaluable assistance to them, few men who do not intend to make their livelihood at the bar can afford to spend three years at law school for the sake of the additional polish it may give to their general education. Nor is it advisable for any man to take up the study of the law in this dilettante spirit...
...every university throughout the country, (though in varying degree) the undergraduates give too little time to matters of immediate importance in the outside world. In the field of industrial relations, this is especially true. The average student, (especially if, he is under no immediate necessity to earn his own livelihood) is only too apt to forget how his fellow citizen lives. If the problems of industrial relations and living conditions were presented to him as part of his regular study, he would consider them more reasonably when he was outside the class-room...
...required far more stamina and determination for them to reach the goal than the average man or woman possesses. Is it right that these obstacles should be placed in the way of ambitious singers merely because they are Americans? Remember, too, that America is the nation which offers a livelihood to more singers than any other country in the world...
That the measure is a desperate one becomes all the more evident as one considers its effects. In the first place, any bill that throws labor out of employment causes disturbance. Men who depend for, their livelihood on their daily work suffer from the closing of factories. In idleness for several days, they naturally blame someone for their misfortune. The fuel regulator and the Administration behind him are very likely to be the object of their criticism. Through the checking of industry, the Government runs the risk of losing the workman's hearty support. Not only internal, but also external...
...from these English universities all their physically-fit students. In their place are coming the young men who have been crippled by wounds or invalid beyond the possibility of further active service, and who now seek from the universities the scholastic training which will enable them to earn a livelihood by means other than physical labor...