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...wants pleasure in the work, the other self-development. Yet the two are closely related. The present objective as the Englishman recognized, is too often simply distinction. If a student's choice of activities were guided by his own tastes, if his aim were the satisfaction or the personal profit which he could find in an interest for its own sake, many of America's collegiate difficulties would disappear. Recently Yale has shown manifestations of some such renaissance, and here, too, the tendency is more and more toward the pursuit of those interests which seem to offer the individual...
Thus, whether figures lie or not, they can be used to refute their own compilers. Education is of some help even to the brainless; and, of those of which "one is born every minute", there are a few who may profit by the wisdom of their teachers...
...three years Obregon has established his Constitution. Mexico is rapidly becoming a happy home for Mexicans. The great haciendas have been split up into small farms. Schools are increasing in numbers and merit. The railroads are beginning to function at a profit. And, for the first time since Madero's wild plunge, the Government of Mexico has produced a budget which fulfills the constitutional requirements. It is by this budget that the first payments are being made to the landlords who were deprived of their land, and also the first payments on the international debt. The Army and Navy...
...Tweedy will speak in the Randolph Breakfast Room on "The Y. M. C. A. Conference at Silver Bay". This is a convention composed of students who meet at Silver Bay every year to discuss student problems from the point of view of religion. Dr. Tweedy will explain the profit that comes to anyone attending the Conference, and will also elaborate on the attractions and opportunities for recreation at Silver Bay. The meeting is open to all members of the University who are interested in the Y. M. C. A. work...
...total of 20,000,000 cars on the installment plan. To supply the demand which he himself will create, he will establish assembling plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...