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...want to master a subject but could, by attendance marks and penalties, be made to do so. Now the cheerful fact is, that as soon as good leadership is provided, the students show a keenness for work, an intellectual curiosity, and a joy in exercising their brains. Forty-two percent of the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard are "candidates for distinction," that is, they are trying for honors under a tutorial system in preference to trying merely to pass under the old system. At present both go along side by side. A boy can study under either system...
...percent who are in the tutorial system contains far more than 42 percent of the leadership of the two upper classes. The men who make undergraduate opinion are now for the tutorial system and an education. If the promise of this condition is fulfilled, Harvard College will have made a most important addition to the practice of college teaching and restored itself to the position of a national college by reason of its excellence and in spite of its location...
...Passaic, N. J., 10,000 workers are striking for the right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...
...obvious result of this insufficient wage is to recruit the aid of all members of the family of working age in the support of the family. Fifty percent of the workers in the mills are women...
...relative scholastic standards in the United States and Germany, he answered: "I think that the Germans excel. Of course, this is contrary to the opinion of most authorities; still, I believe that I am correct. According to the statistics of the state of Prussia for last year, only 41 percent of the students completed the nine-year course while in the Gymnasiums in nine years, while 30 percent were required to double one year, 17 percent to double two years, and 12 percent were forced to double three or more years. The average age of the boys leaving the Gymnasiums...