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...Social Service Committee, under the chairmanship of Corliss Lamont '24, has had an active year. About 250 men have been engaged in leading boys' clubs at settlement houses in Cambridge and Boston, each man meeting his club at least once a week. In order that more of this work might be done in Cambridge, an arrangement has been made with the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., which has charge of practically all of this work in the city, whereby the Association has undertaken to supply necessary leaders. About 20 men have been furnished so far this year. Nine free entertainments...
Introducing his speech with the statement that he had come here to learn. Mr. Kerr said that in the course of his learning he had concluded that America was no longer the land of the pioneer. The people of the United States are not seeking land for settlement, nor are they seeking an increase in population through the channel of immigration. America is today approaching the same economic stage which England reached in 1840, when her manufactures surpassed her agricultural interests. Foreign trade will increasingly become the great interest of America...
...home the partial settlement of the railroad strike leaves a section of the Administration's line very sparsely defended. Again the Democratic videttes can report an opportunity for a successful sortie, under the colors of federal ownership of the railroads, which, they claim, received no fair trial under war conditions and to which popular opinion in the provinces is fast rallying...
Should Germany accept the new conditions, she will hardly show a changed attitude. She will merely acknowledge that the French diplomacy-that of direct action and straight-forward dealing-was after all the best method of preparing the way for a final settlement...
...firm proposal to occupy the Ruber and the Rhineland. France has grown thin on German promises. She wants something more substantial, and it will take all the diplomacy which England and America can bring to bear to make her wait much longer for definite action on the reparations settlement...