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...print in another column a communication concerning make-up mid-year examinations. We emphasized need of permanent reform in this direction some time ago. The communication this morning mentions the innovation, which was introduced for the benefit of those men who were absent from their mid-year examinations because of militia duty in Lawrence during the strike and who were, therefore, allowed to take their make-up examinations in April. In our previous editorial we pointed out the desirability of making this a permanent feature, and we hope with the writer of this morning's communication that the office will...
...Freshman class won positions in the first or second group. Of the Sophomores, eleven per cent, were honor men, and of the Juniors sixteen per cent. These figures not only reveal a progressive interest in and attention to scholarship, but they offer the suggestion than the place for reform is the Freshman class. Here conditions are worst and here changes can be made most easily...
...This fellowship is not designed first of all for men who are making a graduate specialty of economics or sociology, but for men who, whatever their plans for the future, wish to have a solid working acquaintance with city conditions and with the progress of municipal and social reform, particularly as reflected in the life of the people. It is awarded by preference to graduates of Harvard College, and, so far as possible, to men who are just graduating...
...labor would become insignificantly simple. Then with labor simplified, graft and corruption would practically cease. All that labor is waiting for is a capable leader, from its own ranks, and when one is discovered America will follow on the heels of Germany and Great Britain, towards a great social reform...
...kinds that only make for inefficiency, this must be our aim. We have today many economic problems, of immigration, of mal-employment--even more insidious than unemployment--even more insidious than unemployment--and of land tenure. They may be cured by proper use of governmental power. The Reformation was a doing away with religious machinery which prevented man's reaching God. The political reform of today is the doing away with bosses which keep the people from running their government. The hope of democracy lies in making itself more democratic...