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...therefore, the present-day workman chooses to strike his balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted to his day...
...such as these are not a little mystified as to the trend, aims, and scope of the administrative side of "gentleman sports conducted for gentlemen". Perhaps in the last analysis the whole problem rests with those who arrive; rests with them to defined standards, to draw lines, to bring present-day amateurism flush with the might of high opinion...
...characteristic of our present-day educational reform that everything is made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure...
...eminently successful attempt to recreate the dim past and make it stand out as a reality to present-day readers...
...Madam" is again demonstrated the truth of the theory that one need have no great system of propaganda in mind before setting out to write a novel, theory which has seemingly fallen into disrepute among the majority of the better present-day writers of this country. "Purpose, purpose. purpose" is engraved in large type across the pages of almost all the novels of note which have appeared since the beginning of the war. To be sure there have been may thousands of books published abroad as well as in this country which had not purpose, but most of them, unfortunately...