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...apprenticeship for his career. In the case of young men who pass the examination for admission and then postpone their entrance, there is a further disadvantage. Their course of study is necessarily broken or diverted, and it is often hard for them to take up again the normal current of work. The transition from school to college, from set tasks performed under a regular supervised assignment of time to a freer self-direction--a change in which many students are in danger of losing their bearings--becomes more difficult if in the meanwhile their attention has been turned into...
...notice, at least as an earnest experimenter. Mr. McLane, whose student days are still more recent, has three books of verse to his credit. This is the roll of poets alone --and a partial one at that. It indicates no renaissance, perhaps, but I gives evidence of a healthy, normal growth...
...thing well done must be commended, and after the first burst of enthusiasm is over it requires considerable effort to get down to a normal critical plane and find anything like the perspective so easily applied to the average play. In the first place, Andreyev's "Life of Man" is obviously the work of a playwright who sees little or no hope for man in his present state of society. It is bitter, deeply so in parts, and tries at every turn to focus the listener's attention on the utter futility of Man's days on earth...
...budget system created by Congressional enactment. The reduction in military expenditures was referred to; and the flexibility and adaptability of the tariff to changing conditions, through provision for administrative adjustment. The Bonus Bill, and certain widely-attacked schedules of the Tariff Act, are not mentioned. Times are becoming normal; our Reconstruction period is nothing like that after the Civil War, with embittered party conflict, and an impeachment of a President. On the whole, Mr. Harding thinks the work of Congress good...
...year 1922 gave promise of improved conditions, but the loss in revenue due to the coal strike and extra expense incident to the shopmen's strike have proved severe handicaps. Present indications are that with reasonable freedom from labor troubles, and with a normal volume of traffic, the railroads in general may eventually earn the 5 3-4 percent return which the Interstate Commerce Commission have now fixed as a fair rate of income. There is danger, however, that at the least sign of improvement there will be a general demand for further rate reductions. Lower transportation costs are greatly...