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...make the minor sports self supporting is practically the same as continuing the need of undergraduate subscriptions. The object of college athletics is to help along the physical development of the students. The minor sports certainly offer such an opportunity to a great number of men. The gross expenses for the cricket club, lacrosse team, hockey club, and fencing team, for 1901-1902 (I take this year as it is the only one for which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses...
Yearly, said Mr. Brooks, social questions are assuming a more prominent part in American politics, and foremost of these is the struggle between the various trades unions and employers' organizations or citizens' alliances. These employers' organizations have a two-fold object: the destruction of the trades unions and the establishment of the open shop which admits union and non-union men alike. It is questionable, however, whether the open shop is beneficial to the working classes. It results in the introduction of cheap foreign labor, and the lowering of wages. The closed shop, however, is distasteful to the public, Since...
...first regular meeting of the Ethical Society the following officers were elected: president, M. R. Cohen 1G.; vice-president, D. Pottinger '06; secretary-treasurer, B. Beckhard '07; member of the executive committee. J. A. Harley '06. A constitution was adopted, embodying the object of the society,--to promote an earnest interest in problems of practical ethics and to encourage effort toward the highest ideals in personal, political, and social life...
...course has for its object the consideration of civic problems with special reference to social settlements. All who desire to take the course should send their names at once to R. S. Wallace, Phillips Brooks House...
...Barrett states the object of the prizes to be "to do something to develop throughout the United States a wider interest in our political and commercial relations with Latin-America and to foster a more general study of Latin-American history, institutions, political, social and educational conusions, material and industrial resources, and commercial possibilities--especially as they affect the growth of closer ties of international comity and confidence...