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There is a popular song whose refrain runs thus: "Isn't it strange how the times have changed since Grandpa was a lad". Man faces now, as always, the problem of working longer hours and so producing more, knowing that beyond a certain point the fruits of his labor will accumulate faster than he can use them in his shortened period of leisure. Somewhere a balance must be struck. It is possible, however, to increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn...
...first competition was won by Mr. Hale Walker, who graduated from the School last year with the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture. G. H. Lee and G. F. Ingalls, both third year students in the School, also submitted drawings. The problem of the first competition was the treatment of a formal garden for an invalid...
...problem of the second competition was a suitable treatment for an inexpensive back-yard garden, 40 feet wide by 75 feet deep. The drawings required were a plan for the garden and a planting design...
Unhappily for those who had hoped to solve the problem of the old royalist army by this method, the Hungarian duel seldom ends fatally. A scratch on the arm, a blister on the heel, is considered ample satisfaction for the demands of honor. Indeed, to badly injure one's opponent is shocking bad taste, for it prevents his attending the drinking party which usually winds up these affairs. We thus have the example of a nation -- on the brink of economic and social disruption -- playing at Lords and Ladies until tea-time. They seem to have quite forgotten that when...
...last to have found the best combination and the best stroke. Against Cornell the showing was on the whole encouraging, especially in view of the fact that the men had rowed together for less than ten days. The eight showed power and on the whole good form; the problem now is to smooth cut the faults that are still evident in the work of then crew. In an endeavor to do most of this if possible before leaving for New London, Coach Haines has ordered the hardest workouts this year for the rest of the week...