Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making themselves useful, helpful and indispensable." The first, of course, being the group of men which controls the minds of the people by owning the factories in which the people work, by owning and directing the newspapers which the people read, and by directing mounted soldiers (the Russians call such soldiers Cossacks) to intimidate and cast fear into the heart of the people; the workers are afraid to refuse wealth to these men; the rest are the workers, the producers. The first, simply, is that group of folk who live on unearned increment; the second, the great majority from whose...
...support given to the Common wealth by the Faculty and students of Harvard University during the recent emergency is most gratifying. It was pleasant to be told that the call for volunteers to fill the places left vacant by the striking policemen was immediately answered by several score of Harvard undergrauates many of them but recently returned from service in the army and navy in our war with Germany. They did not hesitate to again offer themselves in the support of law and order when the welfare of the public required their services...
From Buenos Ayres come the tidings that the University Federation of that city, a student organization, has threatened to call a country-wide strike of students if there is no Federal intervention between the Teachers' Union and the director-general of schools. This appears to be the utmost refinement of the sympathetic strike, more mention of which a new years ago would have set the world to laughing. Nowadays, however, causes little comment, because seemingly fifty per cent. of the population of the globe is either on strike or about...
This year the club intends to reorganize on its old basis, thus giving undergraduates an opportunity to become proficient in radio operation. A call was issued recently for all men holding first-class commercial licenses, or any operators of the U. S. N. R. F. with ratings above electricians, second class. This was in order to establish a nucleus of men thoroughly experienced as operators, upon which to build the club...
...letter made public yesterday, the Endowment Fund Committee, of Boston made a call upon the teachers and administrative officers of the University for their support in the drive. The committee laid emphasis not so much upon the desirability of individual subscription as upon the inspiration which unanimous action in giving would lend to the drive. The text of the letter follows...