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...what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America. There are no recitations or lectures; there are no cuts; instead, the student faces a definite eight-hour day; four hours of mental work, two of manual work, two of physical education. The result of this system is intended to be the abolition of the gulf between professor and student; the establishment of true democracy among the entire college body; and active instead of a passive student...
...Industrial relations. Smith has made a large part of his reputation on his championship of such measures as minimum-wage laws, workmen's compensation, maternity insurance, and the eight-hour day. It is quite certain that if he were elected the Democratic party, which has acquired many a sudden interest in its time, would be off on a new adventure...
Premier and Finance Minister Raymond Poincare won a smashing vote of confidence, 370 to 131, last week, on his whole financial policy. Thus he reaped well after sowing a gigantic eight-hour speech (TIME, Feb. 13), in which he explained and defended the means whereby he had rescued the franc from decline and virtually stabilized it within only 18 months...
...miners demanded an increase of 2½c an hour, equivalent to a 12½% rise on an average eight-hour weekly wage of $9.60, which, considering the high cost of living in the Reich, is unqualifiedly asserted to be far below decent living...
...After brisk debate, the convention indorsed the Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution?an amendment which thus far has been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women...