Word: hire
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Business men have long since learned that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." If the profession of teaching expects to attract men who are fitted for the work, then it must offer something better than a meagre existence during the apprenticeship years. Otherwise those who are qualified to carry on this responsible work will be turned aside into professions where the reward is more in proportion to their education and ability. It is a problem which must be satisfactorily met in the very near future, or educational standards will receive a setback that belated relief cannot entirely eliminate...
...graduate too unsophisticated to succeed, while the friends, on the other hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist to act for them, and never feel a qualm as to any questionable methods that might be used. In England men of education and men representing property rights go into public life and present their views fairly in debate and fight in the open forum for the principles...
...clients. The service will be free of charge, but the object of the committee will be justice, rather than charity. Before a case will be given full attention an effort will be made to discover its merits, that is, whether the person or persons in question can afford to hire counsel. The committee will be grateful for proper publicity, and asks that anyone who meets with deserving cases should inform them...
Interesting both as an experiment in legal training and in philanthropic endeavor is the foundation of a Legal Aid Bureau of the Law School in connection with the Phillips Brooks House. Only those intimately acquainted with the courts know the distress arising from inability to hire efficient legal aid and can appreciate the philanthropic possibilities of the undertaking. Furthermore, the bureau suggests possibilities for practical training of law students, for the men taking part in the work will be more than repaid in the experience, which they will gain...
...phases of feudalism and slavery, we have the capitalistic phase in which the worker is free but still dependent upon capital for employment. While seeking this employment the laborer is forced into the open market and hence is subjected to competition, which makes it possible for the employer to hire his men at starvation wages. Machinery, having done away with the necessity of skilled labor, has complicated the situation...