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...present strike involving something like eighty percent of the book and job printing of the city of Boston, and affecting Cambridge establishments as well marks another protest on the part of organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...
...pandering to wealth and the idle rich, fostering snobbishness and class distinction"; now an irate graduate writes to the New York Tribune protesting against this very same "seat of aristocracy" for encouraging "theorists whose one intelligible common aim is to break down the existing oroder of things." The 100 percent-American National Security League is also incensed and is marshaling its cohorts into "millitant organizations" of the loyal students" to counteract the spread of Red propaganda...
Indications are that probably only twenty-five percent of the Freshmen really need Senior sponsors,--namely, that portion coming from non-eastern preparatory schools. The Faculty has decided, however, that some good can be achieved by the system and that it should be given another trial. The purpose of the plan is to encourage and aid the Freshman to make himself a part of the University, and accordingly applies mainly to those who come to Harvard uninformed as to the activities in college life. The committee will make it a point to start the work of the advisers early next...
...industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output to 25 percent of the normal. The absurdity of his last scheme--that of using the water powers of the Ural Mountains to generate free electricity for the whole country--would seem to indicate that his dreams are already falling...
...finest of them all. But all the same, these old seamen were great characters. They didn't do any flag-waving, they didn't make the eagle, scream. They were sturdy, dignified and fond of having their own way; a phrase coined some years ago just fits them--100 percent American...