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...together to acquire knowledge they will be railed at for being inclined to question the judgment of their elders, we would join in the hue and cry which is now being raised. We believe, however, that the best curb to the present tendencies in our college would be the sudden acquisition by certain much worried individuals of a sense of humor...
...sudden plunge from the obscurity which usually surrounds our Vice-Presidents has put Mr. Coolidge in the lime-light. He has entered upon the problem of discovering whether or not the "Reds are stalking our college women," and though his observations are made chiefly for the women-folk, the editor of the Delineator suggests that the men may be interested too. So we are. For the University is specifically mentioned as having a chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society along with Wellesley, Simons and Radcliffe to mention a few of . At the Convention "a Harvard man took first prize...
...fools out of the hands of knaves", and in the effort one sees much knavery and much folly. That gaudium certaminis which we all seek in athletic contests and in games like chess and whist the lawyer finds in daily life. The successful cross-examination of a witness, the sudden and surprising turn which a case may take, the quick retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they occur from day to day, the victories when they come, the unmerited defeats, lend a constant zest to life and are pleasant to remember, for even of defeats the lawyer...
...Sudden Change with...
With the war, there came "a sudden rapid, extensive economic change; a rapid growth of government owned and operated industries; and new classes of work and workers" which caused a "tremendous dislocation of the existing conditions",--including substitution of national for district wage systems; extensive payment by result, bonuses, and price fixing without experience. Mr. Clay said one of the most disastrous results of the war to the stability of industrial conditions in England was the severing by the official control of wages of the normal contact between the trade unions and the employers...