Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally the idea of Reverend Frederick Kellogg, better known to his fellow workers as Red, this activity is an interesting beginning in social service on a religious basis in this section...
...union, to be of value to the employees, must be a permanent organization, always ready to protect the interests of its members. If better working conditions are obtained by a union which has not secured closed shop, experience shows that membership drops off, because employees receive the benefits of the union's activity even though they do not belong. The union then ceases to be in a position to protect the employees' interests, and the employer is once more in a position to economize at their expense...
...these two groups there is no other course that will take the place of Music 1. And yet the University turns a deaf car to requests for better equipment and more section men. Last year Dr. Davison was informed that since the University could not afford such expenses, Music 1 would have to be limited to 125 students. This decision which would have checked the progress of the whole department and turned away distributors and concentrators alike, was too preposterous to be followed. So two hundred students are allowed to enroll this year, while about a hundred are forced...
...outstanding contribution, I think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles...
...first act there is a ballet of toe dancers, a chorus of Can Can Girls appears in the second, and in the third, of course, we see the modern chorines. But if you think the Can Can Girls of 1900 had anything to learn from the modern variety, you better drop in on the Opera House and have another look...