Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much that the student resists facts and details. He will absorb trusts and labor unions, municipal government and direct primaries, the poems of Matthew Arnold, and James's theory of the emotions. There is no unkindliness of his mind towards fairly concrete material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American...
...defeats of the North at this time made the bonds practically worthless, and few believed in their recuperative powers. When finally Lincoln decided upon the emancipation of slaves by declaration, he did it as a military measure, to hinder the effective use the South was making of black labor in auxiliary departments of warfare. Seward opposed the proclamation, saying that the world would regard it as the last cry of a defeated nation. Lincoln accepted the criticism in part, deciding to defer the issuing of the problamation until after a victory. His opportunity came at Antietam, and in September...
...there is good material from the second team and some twenty men from this year's freshman class who should strengthen the team considerably. The university football management has announced that the early season practice for the university squad will start on Tuesday, September 7, the first day after Labor Day. The practice will consist of light preliminary work for about a week and then the squad will get down to earnest work in preparation for the opening game with the University of Maine on September...
...question arises as to whether the labor that the new volume manifestly involves is worth while, one can only answer that it is much more worth while than many another activity that offers the Freshman an excuse for not "doing his job" of regular work. But that is a debatable question for future boards to decide. In general I think that the innovations are to be approved; and the Red Book Board is to be congratulated for a good piece of work. With the exception of one or two minor inaccuracies, and the slight to Dame Musica noted...
...needs of our country, on unwilling to sacrifice a little of our time for what our forefathers gave their lives? Are the college men of this country,--those to whom this country has been most king, to brazenly jeopardize the future of this land merely to escape the manly labor of a few weeks in a military camp...