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...There is no doubt Jefferson and the old line "strict constructionists" would suffer grievous shocks today. More and more is the tendency becoming evident to turn to Washington to take up every problem that is proving in the least cantankerous for private interests to handle. "The Government" has become the magic formula for solving every difficulty and curing all ills. This is all the more curious in view of the Government's experience in operating private industry during the war. To prove this it is only necessary to turn to the railroads. There the outstanding evidence of Government control...
...Robinson who writes of the man "Who sees the new and cannot leave the old." In the main it is well not to have the changes every minute, for conservative enlightenment makes for the most profitable advance. We can all clearly see the new, and most welcome it; the problem is to discard that of the old which is obsolete. And the first step is unified exemption, for Seniors, from routine...
...least favor making the college a mass of restrictions and regulations. No. But somehow more than one student goes through college without being awakened as far as his intellectual self goes--that bugaboo word "intellectual" again!--but there is no avoiding it. Fundamentally it is all the old problem of contact; because true teaching is what is necessary, and teachers work only through making contact. The resulting sparks usually start something...
...present coal situation is really a recurrence of that which we may expect from time to time until the whole problem is solved," said Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Education, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. "The public is at the mercy of the coal operators primarily and of the miners secondarily. If they fail to agree the public is practically helpless until they do agree and when they finally do agree the cost of their long disagreement is imposed upon the public in the way of increased prices...
...that this present difficulty will lead to a final solution of the problem, if so it will be a blessing in disguise. What I mean by a blessing in disguise is that if this unfortunate situation so arouses public interest as to develope a real program for the future, it will be some compensation for the inconvenience and the losses that the strike is imposing...