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...multitudes of people to be genuinely seeking employment and unable to find any of any kind. It is disagreeable but not so distressing for multitudes of people to be unable to find as agreeable or as remunerative employment as they would like to have. The latter is the normal condition of most of us, and it is only when it shades off into the former that it presents a real social problem. To what extent the present situation is of the latter and to what extent it is of the former kind is not easy to determine, and can only...
...enrollment at colleges and universities this fall is not only the highest on record, but far in excess of the normal increase attributable to growth of population. Heads of colleges are seriously considering the question of limiting the number to be received. Some colleges have been compelled to reject applicants. It is no longer necessary for a college president to act as drummer for the Freshman class...
Singing by the University Glee Club was followed by short talks by the presidents of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, Advocate and the Glee Club. Dr. Howe told of the advantages offered to 1925 by the fact that it was entering the College when things were really back to normal. R. K. Kane '22, captain of the University football team, asked the class to be loyal to Harvard and told of the unusual set of football coaches working with the Freshman team. The difference between the "getting" and "giving" type was described by Mr. Tibbetts, who said that Phillips Brooks House would...
...minds are like the sea after a storm, where, although the wind has gone down, the billows still roll and break, irresistible in their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
...slow; it may be spotty; it may be threatened from time to time by political disturbances in Europe and other world influences. Nevertheless American business is throughly sound at heart. In this country there are one hundred and five million people, most of whom are living in an ordinary, normal fashion, and it is these one hundred and five million people who at the same time are consumers and laborers, merchants and producers. They must be fed, and clothed, and entertained. I am not at all pessimistic regarding the ability of the business men of this country to meet...