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...opening of the Intercollegiate Conference at Technology today marks the beginning of an experiment which is the first of its kind. The scheme has found widespread favor among American universities, which have not only sent well over a hundred representatives to Cambridge, but have planned a similar convention to be held in the Middle West within a few weeks. The outcome of this first trial will, therefore, be watched with interest by colleges throughout the United States...
Professor W. B. Munro'99 spoke last, on "Americanization." Professor Munro is chairman of the Americanization Committee of the Massachusetts American Legion. After showing that the present agitation for Americanization is due to a widespread conviction of the need of solidarity and of common ideal in this country, Professor Munro said that at present Americanization is carried on too much with the idea that everything American must be imposed on every foreigner. Hr urged an understanding of the alien with a view to learning what he has to teach us, and an Americanization with an ideal not to convert...
...inadequacy of the excess profits tax as means of raising revenue has led to the widespread advocation of the sales tax as a substitute. Its exponents point out that it is the only form of indirect taxation available for further extension; that it would easily afford a large income at a low rate: and that because of its wide distribution it would fall upon no single group. They point out further that the plan has worked well in other countries, notably in Canada and the Philippines. Their discussion of the subject is not a little complicated by the fact that...
...annual winter track carnival which is to be held tomorrow marks the end of the winter season, and will serve as a means of gaining experience for the handicap and interclass meets which will be held early in the spring. The purpose of the meet is to stimulate widespread interest in track, especially among the so-called second string men. With this purpose in view all the events of the meet will be arranged with handicaps...
...undergraduate population is familiar--refers in this week's number of the Saturday Evening Post in not at all complimentary terms to what he is pleased to regard as "Harvard snobbishness." If there is any single cause of the growing hostility to Harvard, it is in this widespread and perhaps not altogether mistaken belief that a Harvard graduate is another name for a conceited young snob...