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...happy solution of the labor problem depends upon the free play of the law of supply and demand. Manufacturers will always charge for their product as much as the public need will stand; laborers will likewise strive to exact from their employers the maximum compensation for their services. Ultimately it is the consumer who pays. If we would preserve American prosperity, we must maintain the only satisfactory compromise between wage slavery and the autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would...
...representation in the executive branch of the government. But these three institutions have provided the last three presidents in the order named, so that that they may be said to have done their share. Somebody may rise to remark that no one of these Presidents was a typical product of his alma mater which is probably true at least in the sense that the public imagination attributes characteristics to these three institutions which their representatives in the White House did not display...
There are signs, indeed, that the reform has already begun. The more flexible rules for distribution, the tutorial system, the appearance in Phi Beta Kappa of names associated with undergraduate activities, all point that way. We want no more standardized product,--we want men. Realization of this end rests ultimately with the undergraduate...
Emerson has been thought of as a product of his New England environment. Here a New Englander shows him universal-minded: as perhaps the first to appreciate the potentialities of the Middle West. Thus Doctor Crothers makes a new approach to his subject...
...already made a slight increase in the tuition fee, but has not solved her financial difficultits by that means. It still costs the institution twice as much to educate a student as the student pays for the instruction. Thus far the Yale Alumni Fund Association, which is the product of the enthusiasm of General W. W. Skiddy of the Class of 1865 S., has been able to make up the annual deficit, and, so far as we know, there is no indisposition on the part of the graduates to keep on attending to the job. On the contrary, there...