Word: grocerymen
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...long ago when a group of professors and school teachers banded together to form a union and strike for higher wages, their standing in the community was increased but not their salary. Teachers, like ministers, are still forced to live well on the same annual pay as grocerymen and expert automobile mechanics, and it is only when such men as Rockefeller take pity on them and give bequests that they "get a raise". Perhaps it is for this reason that, of the 178 positions as teachers in private schools offered to Harvard graduates during the year 1921-22, less than...