Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word. On this basis, college courses offer the means only for intensive and specialized preparation for particular branches of service. Compulsory distribution seldom insures in the average student an intelligent conception of what part he will play in the work of the world or the relation of his labor to that of other people. In other words, the ordinary college graduate lacks that comprehensive view, that general synthesis of human knowledge and understanding which is essential for the intelligent performance of his daily tasks. While in college, students neglect their work because they see no purpose in it; the question...
...executive inefficiency which is inevitable in such a rapidly expanding business as the United States Government. The rest must be attributed to the people as a whole. The very lavishness with which the Government pays for its wants has been a brake on individual production. Large classes of labor and groups of manufacturers have become impressed with the notion that they are indispensable. High wages have made it appear to many workers that they are fulfilling a patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment and munitions have convinced some manufacturers that their...
...there is no eager youth who cares less for what is established and is more radical in his judgments than this man, who, for many fruitful years, has defied the gloomy text about the time that follows the 70th birthday. These latter years have been full of labor, but it has been healthy and happy labor...
...with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made for the education and employment in the simpler mechanical processes of those not fitted for purely intellectual occupations. Manual training schools and manufacturing establishments, whose careful organization of labor on a large scale enables them permanently to employ crippled men, are to co-operate to do this...
...Among the qualities most needed in a builder," said he, "the ability to think clear of one's class and to estimate a man as a man stands pre-eminent." He showed also the great need of co-operation between labor and capital in the vast reconstruction of the future...