Word: labor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best references: No. Amer. Rev. CLV. Sept., 1892; Speech of Sen. Palmer, Cong. Rec., 52d Cong., 1st session, p. 6516; R. T. Ely, Labor Movement in America, ch. IV; Geo. Howell, Conflicts of Labor and Capital, ch. II. pt. v. p. 116, ch. III, p. 147; J. D. Weells, Labor Differences and their Settlement, (Economic Tract...
Some time ago, owing to the lack of men who took their exercise during the evening, the Hemenway Gymnasium was closed shortly after half-past seven. The motives of economy of labor and gas which led to this step were met at the time by no counteracting arguments. In fact, there were none. Nobody used the gymnasium in the evening, and there was no reason for keeping it open. This, however, was in that intermediate period after the men gave up indoor exercise and before the very hot weather had come. But during these last hot days complaints have been...
...volume I was put on sale they had been told that twenty-six years later the sixth number of volume III would be composed of two pages of editorial, a short article on an approaching athletic contest with Yale, a poem, a sonnet, a review of their own labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would be four stories, of very different lengths, and on very different subjects, but all alike in that their plot...
...Economics, Professor Taussig will lecture on the Functions of Law in Social Progress. Father Huntington of New York, Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor at Washington, Professor Adams of the University of Michigan, and Professor Giddings of Bryn Mawr, will all take charge of courses in this department...
...lecture this evening will be given by Mr. R. A. Wood who has been studying social problems in England, and is at the head of the recently organized "Andover House" in Boston. His subject will be "Labor and Politics in England...