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Just so long as the teaching profession was every season flooded by hordes of college or normal school graduates, with only a modicum of experience and un-handicapped in most cases by family or dependents, so long was the teacher of more advanced standing held down to a state approaching penury. It was always simpler to replace with new material the teachers who could no longer make shift with the inadequate returns of the profession than it was to raise salaries...
...failed, as it was bound to fall. It is unsound in theory, unworkable in practice, and as un American as any political device that has yet been suggested by anybody. This system has invited, indeed has almost compelled, huge expenditures on the part of those who have fallen victims to its solicitations, and yet it has proved nothing except that the great mass of Republican voters await with entire confidence the unprejudiced and untrammeled discussion by the delegates to the National Convention...
...final and culminating event of the Union season will take place on Tuesday evening, May 18, at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, when President Lowell will address a meeting open to all members of the Un The subject of the speech is announced as "The Outstanding Events of the Year...
When Congress passed the Esch-Cummins railroad bill last February it eliminated the anti-strike provision because of the protests of the union leaders that such action was not only un-American but unnecessary inasmuch as the railroad brotherhoods were responsible organizations. They maintained that the Big Four unions would quash any strike but those entered upon only after the greatest deliberation and after every means of arbitration and peaceful settlement had been exhausted. On the strength of this assertion the anti-strike provision was abandoned. Today the country is inconvenienced--tomorrow it may be strangled--by an outlaw strike...
...above all to make its students more conservative than when they entered upon their legal course. But whether law makes its followers radical or reactionary is beside the point. The very idea of introducing a measure so repressive as that proposed by the New York law teachers is more un-American than any act countenanced by the Socialist party. The motives of the modern crusaders of "Americanism" are unquestionably commendable in their patriotism, but their judgement, if the results were not likely to prove so dangerous, could be nothing short of ludicrous...