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Congress, as everyone knows, is government by committee. By controlling the political composition of these off-stage organizations, the party in power controls the character of legislation they frame for enactment. Most potent of Senate committees is the Committee on Finance, dealing with taxation. To maintain control over it is a practical necessity for any Senate majority. Last week the rising tide of Western insurgency reached a high-water mark when the Regular Republicans virtually lost control of the Committee on Finance by the election of Senator Robert Marion La Follette, well-dressed young Wisconsin Insurgent, to that sub-Senate...
...recently lamented death of Professor Hurlbut, the resignation of Professor Bliss Perry along with the absence of Professor Lowes at Oxford next year are all unmistakable indications that the English Department is going to find it extremely difficult to cover its field and at the same time maintain the standard of excellence which has been set in the past. At the present time, of the eighty-two courses offered, almost half will be omitted next half year. This means not only that much important material will not be presented, but also that those concentrating in English will be forced...
...colleges should do all within their power to further such a movement, still there is no reason to believe that education as it is today, does not accomplish this aim. A student of economy who learns that seventy-two cents out of every dollar paid in taxes goes to maintain armament of one kind or another, or who learns of the enormous possibilities of applying science to industries, will be the first to urge a lasting peace. Although the attitude with which these courses are given is naturally of primary importance, it is difficult to see how the colleges...
...requires constant alertness on the part of University officials to maintain a faculty which can be of consistently high quality from year to year. The greatest efforts must be made to attract men of stimulating interest to the college, and an equal effort made to facilitate their work here in order that they may have that freedom which is essential to really successful teaching...
Effective Dec. 1 the AT&SF Railway (Santa Fe) following negotiations with their Association of Clerical Employes, granted said employes (clerks, stenographers, etc.) a 5% wage increase. A short time later the supervising chief clerks were granted a similar increase to maintain the same ratio in wage scale...