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...practice of underpaying girls because they live at home Miss Pidgeon found particularly deplorable. Said she: "To the extent that the employed girl is unable to maintain herself entirely she becomes dependent upon her family, and thus contributes materially to any precarious financial condition existing within the family while actually spending her time and energy in work that should afford her a living...
...resolved upon the calling of a conference which would by diminishing navies, minimize the danger of war. America went to the London Conference with the avowed intention of reducing armaments, but she finds herself in the position of being constrained to continue to build warships to maintain parity with Britain. The Model Assembly may not produce anything tangible in its mild attempt at crusading; but there will be one consolation for the delegates: their deliberations cannot possibly be put into reverse and produce a new spurt of cruiser-building...
There have always been advocates of the theory of visual education, a medium of teaching which has only recently been developed to any considerable extent. It has been difficult, naturally enough, to supply adequate funds to maintain an establishment devoted to producing instructive films. Such films are of course rented to schools and institutions as near the cost of production as possible, and the profits are not large as compared with the amount of money invested in the business...
...important essential of any educational institution is the facility for research. To those who were suffering under the fond illusion that the administration had exhausted every available outlet for new restrictions, the announcement that Harvard will not award a degree to any of her sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about...
...major problems before them. Aside from a baseball game between America and Japan with Lady Astor as the probable referee, and the popularization of erstwhile famous restaurants by visiting delegations, the situation remains at an impasse. As the New York Times runs special comments daily the London papers maintain their policy of indifference. However the eyes of the world, and especially those of the United States watch every new development to the exclusion of everything domestic...