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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After speaking of the "bureaux de blenfaleance," M. Mabilleau went on to discuss the only true "institutions de prevoyance" in France, that is, the savings banks; and the labor organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. MABILLEAU'S LECTURE. | 2/18/1902 | See Source »

...Willoughby has resigned his position as instructor in Economics, to accept an appointment as Treasurer of Porto Rico, which President Roosevelt has conferred upon him. Mr. Willough by lectured the last half of last year on the labor question in Europe and the United States. Mr. E. D. Durand, Secretary of the United States Industrial Commission, will probably take Mr. Willoughby's courses, Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Willoughby Leaves. | 12/6/1901 | See Source »

...human would has been made over since Yale was founded. She antedates the accepted basal ideas of existing civilized governments and their actual forms, whether called empire, monarchy or republic; she antedates all professions except the ministry and the law, and all the implements of labor and transportation in modernized countries. One may fairly say that since she came into being all the learned and scientific professions have been created, or recreated; for the ministry and the law have been so transformed as to be almost new professions. Moreover, industrial, agricultural, and social conditions have so changed that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT'S ADDRESS. | 10/22/1901 | See Source »

...geologic formations that have influenced seriously the lives of men in this region since the earliest settlements. The deposits of boulders so common about here drove the pioneers to their towns on barren sand plains instead of on the fertile but stubborn hills and valleys. The slow, persevering labor necessary to reclaim the present farm land from boulders and forests has had an almost inestimable effect on the characters of the New Englanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Environment of Harvard. | 10/18/1901 | See Source »

...second characteristic is a peculiarly fortunate one. Trade-unions usually impose some limit to the amount of manual labor done by their members. Such a limitation may be a wise and necessary thing, because manual labor may be carried to excess. The limitation of intellectual labor, however, is not to be thought of. Given the necessary amount of sleep, food and exercise, a college man can work as long and as much as his mind will allow. The physical strength of a man increases until he reaches a certain age, then remains at a standstill and finally begins to decrease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECEPTION TO NEW STUDENTS. | 10/15/1901 | See Source »

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