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...true I can say that a majority of the men in college who make the first group are students who are concentrating in the Classics. Their study sharpens the wits and increases the scholarship that is latent in everyone. Of all the men who concentrate in Classics 75 percent have the ambition and desire to try for distinction, which is a far higher percentage than in most departments...
...marked contrast to the university students of Western Europe and America, only five percent of whose fathers are engaged in manual labor the students in the Soviet education system are drawn chiefly from factories and farms. Admission to the Rabfac, or Workers' Faculties, corresponding to our secondary and preparatory schools, depends upon three years' employment in industry. The number of the Rabfac students, whose stipend is paid by the government, is considerably over thirty thousand...
After the address, Mr. Fechtner explained in a short interview the workman's point of view in the Waltham strike, of which he was a leader. "During the past two years", said Mr. Fechtner, "the wages have been reduced 40 percent. When it was announced that there would be a further 10 percent reduction, the workers, though unorganized, universally struck...
...report of the Boston Chamber of Commerce which has been investigating the financing of social service institutions discloses a not unusual situation and attendant problems. Out of 43,000 contributors to such agencies, one percent gave more than half the money. The problem before the committee is a more equal distribution of this financial burden over the community, and a more equal distribution of the funds between institutions, with an elimination of overlapping and unnecessary activities...
...want to see either rich or poor escape taxation," Mr. H. C. Pell '05 said last night, "but I want to see the pinch equally applied. Ninety percent of the corruption in American politics is the direct result of the rotten taxes and tariffs enforced by the Republicans. As a nation, we are now envied by all, liked by a few and hated by a few, but if we continue in our present policy as regards the tariff, we will be distrusted...