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...constant source of a spiritualized good nature; that it prescribes forgiveness and mutual trustfulness, that it leaves us free, making room for all fresh conditions of society, which we must meet as they come to view; that it is the book of hope. The perception of the Social problem and its urgency is the pledge, to those who have the Bible in their hands, of it happy and complete solution...
...extremes. Calculations can be made here only on the basis of average. The United States Census deals only with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class...
...problem for the statistician is a difficult one. He must use no a priori methods but must analyze accurately a great mass of facts and give the public results that can be depended upon...
...beginning of this season the problem of the choice of an eleven from a very large squad was brought before the coaches more forcibly than ever before. When practice began on Monday, Sept. 17, forty-five candidates came out and within a week the squad numbered eighty men. To select a team from so many candidates and to round it into condition soon enough to win the two important games with Pennsylvania and Yale seemed a very difficult takes. The coaches decided at once to bring about the development of the team very slowly and gradually, and not to vary...
Second undergraduate prize-"The Race Problem in the South," by R. H. Leavell...