Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Child Labor Exhibit of the National Child Labor Committee of New York City will be placed on free public exhibition in the Living Room of the Union today, remaining on display to day and tomorrow. The exhibit consists of photographs, charts and products of the work of the 150,000 children employed in factories. Its purpose is to arouse public opinion to aid in the passage of the committee's bill to prevent the interstate commerce of child labor products. The bill is being held up in the Senate for lack of public pressure. While the exhibit is displayed...
...Study of Gawain and the Green Knight" is the title of a new book by Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, of the English Department, which has just been published by the University Press. This volume, which is the result of thirteen years of thought and labor, has two objects: the first is to trace the history of a great romance, while the second is to illustrate early literature...
...certain works of Sappho, Sophocles, and Menander enables us to sketch more clearly periods and figures of literature that were somewhat obscure to our ancestors. Who knows what may yet await the student, perchance at Herculaneum, if he is far-sighted enough to prepare himself for future prospects by labor with the Classics that we have? The great archaeological conquests of the last fifty years, when used with caution, permit us to re-create more vividly than our forerunners the environment in which the masterpieces of letters were produced and assist us in the solution of certain distraught questions...
...self-supporting student at Harvard, the item of board is the greatest problem that he has to cope with. It is essential that he shall have enough wholesome food to nourish him properly for the mental and physical labor that he must perform, and the difficulty in earning enough money to meet this cost may easily result in the sacrifice of health...
...hardly necessary to say that a department composed entirely of extremists would be far worse than one without the leaven of radicalism. The ideal situation would be to have both sides of labor, corporation, labor-union questions and the like presented by men with strong convictions pro as well...