Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work as a tutor or tutor companion is usually highly remunerative and is more pleasant than selling, but it is, for obvious reasons, not open to all men. It is also comparatively scarce as the number of jobs in that line is rarely, if ever, equal to the number of men desiring such work. There are certain peculiar qualifications which go with this work which prevent many otherwise worthy men from securing it. It is, furthermore, for a really able man not nearly so remunerative as sales work...
...offered the U. S. public last week. These bonds are against the General Union of the Eight Bavarian Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church. Net proceeds of the sale will be loaned as needed to the Bavarian dioceses against first mortgages on Church property or against approved collateral of equal value. This financing is considered an innovation in Catholic Church affairs...
...found applying for work. New Jersey law allows employment of children at 14 years of age provide that they attend "continuation school" two half days a week for two years. This rule is invariably followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except drudgery and hardship. They are undernourished and underschooled, and must contribute to the family income...
...this be false the whole cannot be equal to the sum of its parts and perhaps it is not. What applies to mathematics would seem to be very untrue in ethics but here lies the basis of most ethical tangles. Very early in Man's development, he found that what was advantageous to him individually, when practised by everybody did not seem to be good for the whole. Then as governments were developed, a more or less efficient judicial system was established so that no longer did it profit the individual to do what was unprofitable for everybody...
...Crimson's chances of retaining he title are reasonably good, although it has been beaten this season by M. I. T. and Brown is rated equal in strength to the University mat men. Stearns is the only University man who will have an individual title to defend. He won the New England Championship in the 135-pound class in last year's tournament...