Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have succeeded in arousing a powerful craft spirit of pride in speed and finish of workmanship, and have assured themselves a guaranteed weekly wage, regardless of weather conditions, for under the rules laid down by the initiators of the scheme every worker is to assist the progress of the job in hand at all times, regardless of weather conditions, which often make outdoor construction - impossible. The system has worked very well in the communities in which it has been tried. In fact on every occasion that the Guild has offered bids in competition with Union contractors, the latter have been...
...behind this movement do not intend to interfere in any way with the existing order of affairs between capital and labor. The college student will merely don old clothes, obtain a job, and then attend to it like any other workman in the shop. This will give him excellent opportunity to study at close range the actual conditions in laboring and industrial plants...
...first, second, third or fourth; and an Oxford first is recognized the world over as a mark of very high achievement. In such a course one gets the full advantage of the Oxford tutorial system, and a sense of collaboration and competition with one's fellows in the same job which is hard for us here to realize. It is choosing the best and the most distinctive training that Oxford can offer, and such thorough grounding in a particular field broadly conceived, as none of us can afford to scorn. With energy and ambition one can take "schools"--the final...
...present strike involving something like eighty percent of the book and job printing of the city of Boston, and affecting Cambridge establishments as well marks another protest on the part of organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...
...Minister's Opportunities for Usefulness" was considered at the same session from three different angles. The Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry looked at the subject from the viewpoint of the Preacher, emphasizing the man-sized job before a minister. The student's view on this general subject was taken by the Reverend George Thomas Smart '95 of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church. His position was that the diversity of the field of study open to one in the ministry is the basis for opportunities of usefulness. The Very Reverend Edmund Swett Rousmaniere '83, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul...