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...times to enforce such legislation, the present is the worst. Army and navy demobilization has flooded the country with surplus labor. It will be two or three years at least before industry can settle down to normal conditions. To add to this economic unrest by increasing the number of the unemployed is the worst kind of statesmanship...
...first time in three years a normal summer vacation is at hand, and many undergraduates have already made plans to spend it in a way which seems a decidedly wise one, namely, as manual workers in factories, yards, and mines of the nation, where the great forces that govern industry may be seen in actual play...
Snobbery, of course, is only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
...Greenough '98 of the Athletic Committee. It does not aim to supplant organized athletics but to supplement them by furnishing to those who cannot find places on the regular Freshman or dormitory teams alternative opportunities for regular exercise and instruction in recreative sports. The normal time which each member of the compulsory athletic class would have to devote to exercise will be three hours a week. Any man participating in organized athletics would be excused from attendance at this class during the period of such participation...
This happy situation makes it all too easy for us to forget that the country needs us in peace just as urgently as in war. The service required is more natural and normal, perhaps, than it was, but still it is service. By developing ourselves to the utmost of our capacity, and along lines in which we are best fitted to serve, we are doing our bit toward the development of the nation. The fight to develop the student body is the fight for which colleges exist. Even during the normal reaction from actual war it cannot be lost sight...