Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DeNunzio-seeded seventh in the tournament-ended his spectacular wrestling career by making Harvard history yet again. Finishing fourth in the 141-pound weight class, DeNunzio became the second wrestler ever at Harvard to earn All-American accolades twice...
...blame. In every university throughout the country, (though in varying degree) the undergraduates give too little time to matters of immediate importance in the outside world. In the field of industrial relations, this is especially true. The average student, (especially if, he is under no immediate necessity to earn his own livelihood) is only too apt to forget how his fellow citizen lives. If the problems of industrial relations and living conditions were presented to him as part of his regular study, he would consider them more reasonably when he was outside the class-room...
Your first error, that "the members have no time they can depend upon to earn money through lessons or outside work, is easily corrected by a glance at any directory of music teachers in Boston. Mr. Longy has his own school, Mr. Lauvent is acknowledged the best flutist, and Mr. Holy the best harpist--all of whom derive no small income from teaching. I am sure that Mr. Fradkin himself would admit that teaching is included in his daily regime. Also the Methodist-Episcopal Church on Massachusetts avenue, just beyond Walter Hastings Hall, gives a series of Sunday evening musicales...
...members of the Boston Symphony have no time they can depend upon to earn money through lessons or outside work, and thus to fatten their meagre incomes. Under these conditions their demand for a union is no more than a demand for justice...
...draw able men into the teaching profession? At present, there are innumerable examples of young college graduates, eminently fitted for an academic life, who shun such a future solely because they are unable to forego the comfort for themselves and their families which they are able so easily to earn in other fields...