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...sooner we can resume our high ambition of becoming great and useful men and "shaking a loose and happy leg as sixty." A critic in New York declares the life of the average college man to be largely the result of his environment, the influence divided into 5 percent the college, 20 percent his preparatory school and 75 percent his home...
...copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California. He only had gone the usual twenty miles, however, when the engine stopped. Some, made cynical by similar experiences with scientific restoratives, may hesitate to pursue the rest cure further and so leave Shakspere...
...battleships and 103 destroyers with reduced crews and also to skeletonize the crews of other necessary vessels. But even with these reductions we would have to abolish our Adriatic and Central American squadrons and this is unthinkable. With 65,000 men we could have only about 20 percent of the men for shore stations, aviation instruction, radio school, etc. Heretofore it has been our custom to have 50 percent of the enlisted personnel on shore, while in England they have 60 percent. With a navy of 96,000 men proposed by Mr. Harding, we would have 30 percent on shore...
...profitably employed was limited largely by the number of officials that could be maintained, the proportion of the population getting an education was extremely small. Great progress has been made in the twenty years since the old system was thrown overboard, but the fact remains that not over 10 percent of the people are literate, probably not over 10 percent of the children of school age are actually in Scholl and when one considers the financial resources of the country, the task of providing universal education seems almost impossible. One should not infer that illiteracy and lack of intelligence...
...Instability of rates", said Mr. Hines, "is a public menace. In fact eight percent of the population is directly concerned with what the railroads pay for labor. When it is realized that the railroads spend about four and one-half billion dollars yearly, it is apparent what an enormous influence the industry exerts on the country...