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...needs and the near future. Since the war the laboratories of mechanical, electrical, civil and sanitary engineering have been entirely rebuilt, brought up to date, and enlarged to about three times their former capacity. The faculty is made up of skilled teachers whose past and present activities cover a wide range of experience; few, if any other faculties include so many teachers of eminence. There is now at the University an Engineering School where young men have the opportunity to obtain technical training of the highest order, and at the same time to participate in the life and activity...
...another column of the Crimson appears an interview in which Mr. Fechner, lecturer at the Graduate School of Business Administration, calls attention to the wide-spread misunderstanding that exists as to the aims of labor unions. So much publicity is given their discreditable acts, that their usefulness is often overlooked. Among the aims mentioned by Mr. Fechner, is the campaign to carry on educational work among the workers. Not only do the unions advocate compulsory education for children, free text-books and the extension of night schools, but they would have opportunities for study so widely offered that all labor...
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...provide this ice surface, which is 200 feet long by 90 feet wide, over eleven miles of pipe are used. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or the track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings for boxing matches. The running track is of standard with and measures ten laps to the mile. It is expected that these facilities for boxing bouts and track meets, especially the annual B. A. A. games, will be welcomed, as the seating arrangements at Paul Revere Hall have never proved...
Professor F. J. A. Pyre of Wisconsin State University, himself an old football player, sounded a serious note of warning that college sport is approaching that same dangerous position which resulted in nation-wide curtailment fifteen years ago. He named overintensification in sport and the dangers of contamination from professional methods as likely to leave the college with mammoth stadiums, built in the present period of enthusiasm, but desolate a few years hence, if college faculties decide that the primary purpose of colleges is education and not athletics. He pointed out that the present craze for athletics, if not guarded...