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...Examples of this are on every hand. Perhaps the greatest need is in financial matters, for the aggregate ignorance of the 110 millions in this country, as far as affairs economic are concerned, is nothing short of appalling. When a man like Henry Ford advocates the substitution of some sort of land standard of values for the gold standard, in addition to the many proposed changes chronically being aired, there is good reason to consider the question. When a man with an audience as large and as unanalytical as Arthur Brisbane's advocates paying for the bonus with unsecured greenbacks...
...Middle Western colleges. New times, new temptations! If ever Putnam, Conn., vied with Worcester, Mass., at professional football, putting $100,000 to the touch and hoping to win by dint of star players imported from Yale and Harvard respectively, the fact is nowhere recorded. But this is the sort of thing that took place between Carlinville and Taylorville, lining the pockets of players from Notre Dame and the University of Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude pharisaical. No one can be quite sure what would have happened if professional football had flourished among the cities...
...clock tonight in the Arena the Crimson hockey team will go out to meet the speedy Westminster sextet, the strongest ice combination in this part of the country and, next to Toronto, the most formidable opponent which has appeared on the University schedule this season. Only the most brilliant sort of hockey on the part of Coach Claflin's men can result in a victory this evening over Westiminster, which is favored by experts to win by the slight margin of one or two goals...
...nearly a year active agitation in favor of some sort of Federal law for the advancement of education has been in progress; on April 11, 1921. Mr. Towner introduced a bill in the House of Representatives which would create a department of education in the charge of a Secretary. At the meeting held Saturday morning in Lawrence Hall many prominent educators spoke of the need of the States for assistance in educational work. The proposed bill is designed for the purpose of granting moneys to the states for their aid; it is not planned to have it control schools...
...begin in the preparatory school", he declared. "There are two reasons why our secondary institutions offer no attraction for such a student. One is the prevailing tendency of all American preparatory schools to 'cut boys to pattern'. Now it can readily be seen what effect an atmosphere of this sort has on the young theatrical aspirant. He does not intend to be put to pattern. He wants an opportunity to train and develop his talent. So he immediately becomes labelled as a non-conformist, an experimenter, and finds no one to sympathize with his natural tastes. The second obstacle...