Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Pennsylvania idea of hiring teacher coaches is a step in the right direction, this alone will not produce athletics for all, or even remove all of the professionalism. It is too easy to hire a coach and make him an instructor. Better is the graduate coaching system, which does more to insure the selection of good men who are also coaches of ability...
...such economic and social methods should be set up as will enable every head of a family to earn as much as according to his station in life is necessary for himself, his wife, and for the rearing of his children, for 'the laborer is worthy of his hire...
...country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again. To hire still more men, he now runs four six-hour shifts daily. He also increased wages to give every employee at least $4 a workday...
...choice of Koussevitzky for Boston has proved singularly happy. He is an excellent musician, although it is said he cannot read a score, has to hire pianists to teach him new music before he in turn can transmit it to his men. He has the magnetism, the energy which were necessary to rejuvenate Boston's orchestra in 1924. He has an insatiable interest in new music and a talent for playing it. His programs are indisputably the best in the country. So is his understanding of Ravel and Debussy...
Harvard knows better. It knows that a good football team goes merely with the cash to hire the right coach and the alumni to send the right men. There is, we agree, no glory attached to that. When the Michigan team plays eleven boys who just happen to attend Harvard we shall eschew the Michigan locomotive and the skyrocket. Bue we shall keep our eyes open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading...