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Thus in "Shavings" we find a lovable chap who by his wit and keen horse sense succeeds in keeping two of the "leading citizens" from ruining one another and brings a charming love affair to its proper conclusion. The whole forms a "character study" of no little power...
...read it with "a chip on his shoulder". The CRIMSON, I take it, did not "pass judgement" on anyone. It merely tried to point out that the Age of Machinery has brought with it fewer hours of labor--for the student as well as for the "chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer". Moreover, the tendency is very evidently toward a still further shortening of the working day as time goes...
Bless my stars he works "only eight hours a day", he has "money to burn", he "throws to the winds his money and himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer How many hours a day do we actually work--if mastering usless data that we take care to forget as quickly as possible can be called work? And how do most of us spend our leisure time which the working youth ought to consecrate...
...Mayor's adventure, the Lodge is to have more "showers" and "better accommodations for the "down-and-outers." The Peters way of roughing it facilitates the winning of appropriations. There is no refusing a man who shares the lot of the jobless and the homeless. A virile chap, the Harvard-slum Mayor. New York Times
...important property in so far as its income producing ability is concerned. The attitude of well-to-do people differs from that of the unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars...