Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Community Church is the community functioning spiritually. It emphasizes the community, and not the church as the source of religious life, and itself as a free agent for the expression not the control, of this life...
...employee representation in this country has been through a man who is not a worker in the shop itself, but who is employed by the union for the purpose of looking after the worker's rights. This system of having the employees represented by the union, through a special agent, is sometimes efficient, and sometimes not. In general, it might be said that it concerns itself chiefly with the settlement of primary matters, such as wages, hours, and so forth, and does not attempt to deal with the underlying problems of friendly relations between employer and employee. On the other...
...anyone who so desired to single out one of the causes as the true one. That is exactly what was done in the communication in the following day. The writer assumed that it was the desire of Harvard to quench this "detrimental resentment." Therefore he suggested as a quenching agent the remodeling, or we might say, the cospomolization of the existing society. The recent communication under the heading "A Boost for Back Bay" suggests the impossibility of changing the existing order of things. Then my answer is, "do not puzzle over why Harvard fails to attract westerners". We must choose...
...Press has developed naturally from a small printing office established some fifty years ago by the College for taking care of examination papers and miscellaneous printing needed in various offices. In the course of time this little shop was enlarged sufficiently to print the Official Register, and a Publication Agent was appointed to supervise the distribution of such pamphlets. On January 13, 1913, the Harvard University Press was formally established by the President and Fellows as a department of the University, and a Board of Syndics was appointed, a committee of seven professors and business men whose chief function...
...ready to do the same. Only when Germany has carried out the conditions of the Peace Treaty, cut down the size of her police squadron and "civil guards," paid her indemnity, ceased to clamor for the days of Kaiserism, and actually settled down to become a peaceful productive agent in the markets of the world,--only, then will it be possible to put faith in the re-creation of the Teuton mind...