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...Sergel takes for his opening theme the problem of the unmarried mother. To cut the issue clear he starts his principal character at the age of nineteen in the provincial Iowan town in which her lower middle class family has lived. With all the exaggerated sensationalism of a reporter on a yellow journal covering a four alarm fire, the author devotes nearly half of his novel to her experience with maternity beginning with a petting party and ending with a wedding...
...relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination rooms remains an insult to many, yet the Columbia method seems to approach the problem from the wrong end, to put the cart before the horse. Before undergraduates may be allowed all the privileges of the "desire" program, they must be educated up to education by desire. In this course of sprouts, gradual extension of freedom of cuts is a prime requisite to accustom the student...
...cannot be doubted that the Harvard team has had, hidden somewhere within it, great potential power; and if that bidden power is ever to be drawn out and made a reality, it will be done this week when the team reaches the climax of its season. That is a problem, however, for the coaches alone. What the undergraduate body can do tonight at the Union, tomorrow at the field, and Saturday at the game, is to show, in no uncertain tone, that it too has the will...
...question, the world cannot afford to hesitate. Now that the peoples have no longer the excuse of ignorance as to the state of affairs in Germany, is it not up to them to act without delay? The winter is coming and time is of the essence of the problem. The German people are not in danger of starvation. They are starving. They are also in a state of bankruptcy and economic chaos, while under-nourishment and tuberculosis are doing their work upon children and adults alike. American and European relief work has been nobly forwarded, but it is essential...
...anti-branch banking group, despairing of attempting to change the state banking regulations of each of the 48 states, have endeavored to get at the problem by one blow through the Federal Reserve System. Owing to their insistence, the Federal Reserve Board adopted resolutions sharply restricting branch banking activities of state banks now in the Reserve System, or those which may apply for membership in it. In general, branches are forbidden outside the cities or towns in which the main banking offices are established...