Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead of seeking for an analogy in flies, why did he not look for it among the "weaklings" of the armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance? Did the soldiers of Alexander or Caesar have to meet anything like the rigors of trench warfare? If the robust health of the American Expeditionary Force is a measure of the effects of pampering and hospitalization, the human race might profit from a more general application of such debilitating influences...
...body of laborers ought specifically to be included in this category, one would say, it is those whose business. It is to deliver milk. And yet the milk men in New York are on strike. There is no need to dilate upon the hardship which this is working. It is quite obvious that each a strike causes great suffering especially to the innocent by standers in the struggle: the children...
...means make strikes impossible in those industries in which cessation works hardship on the public. But in the name of common sense, let is have done with the idea that merely making striking illegal and appealing to the public spirit of the workers in any way settles the permanent problem. Our economic structure is becoming more and more complex; more and more industries are becoming public service industries in which the right to strike does not exist. An equivalent for this former right must be found, and found speedily. Unless we can settle the labor problem in a rational...
...clear that if the university is to help, the world as well as the individuals under its immediate influence it must strive after something more than more culture. But is this true of the college proper? Harvard men sometimes account it a hardship to be forced to accept an S.B. rather than an A.B. simply because they entered college without Latin. When generations of graduates have found that college training made life sufficiently more interesting as to warrant their sending their sons back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become...
...Telling the Freshmen where to go" may not perhaps seem a particularly pleasant way of ending one's vacation. But for men living in the vicinity of Cambridge giving a few hours a week will not be a great hardship: It will be an opportunity for real service...