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Tracing the history of migrations, which is as old as the history of the human race, Mr. Alexander showed that in immigration we are dealing with a changing problem, and one which is not capable of a final solution. In the last century 36,000,000 people have come to the United States, urged by economic, religious, political, social, and artificial reasons, but in recent years there has been a distinct change in the character of immigration. Mr. Alexander explained that whereas in the earlier years of immigration 98 1-2 per cent of those who came to our shores...
...Committee which had talked informally and freely with representative students confirmed everybody's suspicion that candidates for managerships often damaged themselves by unintelligent use of their time, damaged players by servile attentions, and damaged sport by such shirking of their college 'duties as gave it a bad name. "The problem with our managers," says Mr. William J. Bingham, who has supervised them in the past year, "is to decrease the amount they are now doing, or at least to make them discriminate between the essential and the non-important." For an athlete to drop his clothes on the floor...
...private secretary, and was the aide of the British Premier at the Peace Conference of Versailles. As a graduate of New College, Oxford University, and a past editor of "The Round Table", a political review of recognized influence, he is particularly qualified by training and experience to present the problem of maintaining peace. He will explain the causes of the present crisis in Europe, the dangers involved, and the possible solutions to this international complication...
...Dover Road", and no such whimsy as in "Mr. Pim", but here is a hint of something growing in the young Englishman's art: he is holding his own fascinating traits, and picking up power and sincerity to add to them. In this play he touches upon a problem, and while he refuses to come to grips with it, he approaches near enough to size it up pretty thoroughly. The problem is that of post-mortem honor-consideration for the dues of the dead, and how far they should affect the dues of the living. But the problem...
...Living Room of the Union Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Kerr has chosen for his subject "The Situation in Europe", in which he will deal with the present international crisis, the causes, the dangers, and the means by which the difficulties may be overcome. The problem of peace is a subject upon which he can speak with authority, for at the Peace Conference of Versailles he was the aide of the British Premier...