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...lectures which will be given on the Australian labor movement may be described, perhaps, as dealing with industrial history in the making. Hon. Crawford Vaughan, by whom these lectures will be delivered, is a former premier of South Australia and has held other public offices. His descriptions of conditions in Australia will be these of a trained economist, experienced in practical affairs and speaking from first-hand knowledge...
...third unsupported statement about D'Annunzio is that he is backed only by a small part of the Italian people. The present ministerial crisis in Italy shows that this statement is groundless. Premier Nitti, one of D'Annunzio's bitterest enemies, has fallen; this is a great victory for D'Annunzio, a victory which plainly shows that the majority of the Italians are with D'Annunzio...
...other places being fought for by Wharton and Goodwin, and Bardes, Gurney and Chittick. O'Connell will also be Harvard's strongest contender in the mile run, and with F. G. Bemis '22 should place well against Stone, Murray and Gill of M. I. T. MacMahon, Tech's premier two miler, will face B. Lewis '20 and C. S. Bond, E.S., in that event...
...World is taking itself too seriously," says Premier Nitti of Italy; and we think that perhaps he may be right. Our "ravelled sleeve of care" is in a more tattered state than Macbeth's ever was, so that something more than sleep will be needed to knit it up again. And even Hamlet's eminently just complaint that the times were out of joint would today be ranked as an improper understatement of the facts...
...Premier Nitti, however, has some hope to offer. The cure that he recommends consists in smiling and in a cultivation of a sense of humor. He evidently takes little stock in the attitude of his former companion, M. Clemenceau, who is reported to have said that he was tired of the human race, and hoped in Egypt to find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially...