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...field for Americanization is so broad that there is a place for all agencies that can be interested in the task. At present many patriotic societies, chambers of commerce and civic organi- zations, foreign clubs and societies, settlement houses, trade unions, industries, public libraries, women's organizations, sectarian organizations, and public schools are actively engaged in the work...
...tremendous increase in demands for more money show that we still have before us the task of explaining to workmen that value given in wages must equal value received. If we doubt the importance of our efforts in this line we should note that the 139 strikes for higher wages caused the loss of almost four million working days--no small loss for a single state...
There is not much evidence of college graduates realizing, or helping to solve, the social questions of the time, which is peculiarly their task, according to Thomas Mott Osborne '84 in a recent interview. Not that college men do not go into social work, but once active they are not as clear headed and direct as they should be in their training...
...Harvard Engineering School seems to have successfully undertaken the vital task of supplying to industry the expert who shall know by a happy combination of theoretical work and personal experience in a shop both the technical problems of administration and the all important human element. No longer can the A.B. think of his friend, the S.B., as a man merely wrapped up in numbers and blue prints; he is now a leader...
...University returns to the basketball court after a long absence. Candidates for the five report to Coach Wachter this afternoon. Needless to say the building of a team will be a hard task in a college where basketball tradition itself has died out; but it will be exceedingly, worth while, if Harvard receives the new minor sport with anything like the enthusiasm shown at Yale and Princeton...