Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution of the problem but the cause of it. The number of strikes increasing each year shows that labor eventually must be satisfied in the only way possible. The growth of the A. F. of L. shows how the movement has spread. The workers are no longer content under the open shop system with its bad working conditions, payment of lower than a standard of living wage, and its ineffective collective bargaining...
...word of general criticism may not be out of place here. Although the essays are good in content, there is a noticeable lack of style in them, a defect surely worth remedying. Again, verse of a higher quality ought to be procurable in a college as well provided with poets as Harvard. This issue of the magazine is above all, lacking in stories of compelling interest, although "Chowder" is an approach to what might be done in this direction...
...danger that the furnishing of other and really adventitious stimuli will result in encouraging a certain unworthy charlatanism. For my part 1 believe that, as things are, scholarship receives all the "recognition" that it deserves or wants. Your true scholar has always been, and doubtless will continue to be, content to keep the noiseless tenor of his way without (to mix the quotations) making himself a motley to the view. F. N. ARUIN...
...between now and June, the impending void in the Senior's career will create a pause in his activities for a more serious consideration as to the form his approaching struggle with the world will assume. Just at present, however, he still seems preoccupied with undergraduate pleasures and is content to let the future late care of itself...
...That is the land of lost content...