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...effort to break away from the somewhat stultifying literary atmosphere of the Advocate by printing a series of articles, some of them rather objectional, intended to set the college-world both thinking and talking. Since those first two numbers it has been gradually declining into a more commonplace and normal state in which it is satisfied to print the usual type of college article and story. Its first number of the present year is sufficient proof that it had forgotten the purpose with which it set out. Such titles as "The Football Team," "Harvard's Glee Club," and an article...
...sufficient for the Harvard Magazine to take its place as an accepted and normal college literary publication: It must branch out into new fields and give an opportunity of expression to the men of the University whose thinking leads them to question the existing theories and standards...
...plan which has been suggested to relieve the situation is to have the federal reserve board extend a large amount of credit to the farmers and to adopt a very liberal policy toward renewals. This, however, may afford temporary relief, but conditions will have to eventually get back to normal, and in this period of readjustment, someone must suffer. As Senator Edge of New Jersey says, "The only durable and infallible barometer of business is the law of supply and demand, and to set up an artificial and false structure for the maintenance of prices, because certain industries are suffering...
...people. As a man who is out of work through no fault of his own is disgruntled and looks with envious eyes on those in more fortunate circumstances, he heeds proposals for more equal distribution of material things, whereas such thoughts would never enter his mind in normal times when he is in possession of a job that provides with reasonable sufficiency for himself and his family. The efforts of such organizations as the American Federation of Labor are directed to try to prevent a development of this spirit of despondency and to maintain conditions that will allow the worker...
...York almost double the number of Burglaries, than occurred in all of England and Wales. These figures are typical of dozens of comparisons in Mr. Raymond Fosdick's book, "American Police Systems." The number of crimes taking place at present is certainly abnormal; but it is the normal that is so alarming...