Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...
...hours, and eight half-courses are necessary to satisfy the requirements of 1000 hours of work demanded in the fourth year. The two half-courses elected for the first two or the last two months of each half-year must be formed on the same plan in order to avoid conflict. Students wishing to specialize may elect more than one of the half-courses offered in a particular branch of medical study, but no student will be allowed to devote his whole year to one subject without the consent of the head of the department concerned...
...During the years 1904 and 1905 conferences have been held between committees of Harvard Univrsity and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a view to discovering whether a scheme of co-operation might be adopted which would secure mutual assistance, make possible a larger enterprise, promote economy, avoid any wasteful competition, and by these means give the purpose of benefactors who have bestowed money in trust for education in applied science the fullest accomplishment. Whatever the issue of these conferences may be--whether favorable to co-operation or unfavorable--it is not proposed, and has not been proposed, to separate...
...Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars." It is thus evident that in many respects the free elective system has proved a failure at Harvard. The system has, moreover, developed peculiar deficiencies. There is a lack of method and arrangement in the choice of courses, and many valuable...
...Union dance a great number of University Hall coat-checks were taken away. In order to avoid a loss of personal property at future University gatherings it is necessary that these checks be returned, and all men having any are urged to return them as soon as possible to the office of the Union...