a student from playing
summer baseball.
15. No student in an American college should be eligible to compete in
intercollegiate athletics until he has begun his second year's work.
16. All studies in the X--- College (or High School) above those of
the Freshman should be entirely elective.
17. In all public high schools training in military tactics should be
required.
18. Public high schools should be under state supervision.
19. Admission to American colleges should be allowed only upon
examination.
20. Academic degrees should be given only upon state examinations.
21. The library of X--- College (or High School, or city) should be
open on Sunday.
22. A plan of self-government should be adopted for the X--- College (or
High School).
23. The terms "successful" and "failed" as the only indication of
grade work should be adopted by the X--- School in place of the
present plan or working.
24. Gymnasium work should be required in X--- School.
25. Training in domestic science should be required of all girls at
X--- School.
26. Manual training should be a requirement of all boys at X---
School.
SOCIAL QUESTIONS
27. The influence of the five-cent theater is beneficial.
28. A state board with power to forbid public exhibition should
exercise stage censorship.
29. Children under sixteen years of age should be prohibited from
working in confining industries.
30. Children under fourteen years of age should be prohibited from
appearing on the stage.
31. A minimum wage for women employees of department stores should be
enacted by the state of X---.
32. Public ownership of saloons would be a desirable method of dealing
with the liquor problem.
33. The English system of old-age pensions should be adopted by the
United States government.
34. Vivisection should be prohibited by law.
35. The publication of court proceedings in criminal and divorce cases
should be subject to a board of censorship.
36. Education under the direction of a state board, should be required
in the state prisons of X---.
37. The laws of marriage and divorce should be uniform throughout the
United States (constitutionality conceded).
38. Local option is the best method of dealing with the liquor
question.
39. The army canteen is desirable.
40. A system of compulsory industrial insurance should be adopted by
the state of X---.
41. An eight-hour law for all women workers should be enacted by the
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