Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...African man performs any sort of manual labor which is considered degrading, but the women are the toilers. Standing in a community is measured by the number of wives which a man has. An ordinary person has about five, while the more influential members possess about thirty. Mr. Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only...
...being assigned will be put on the "blacklist." That knowledge is common property. But it is never realized in its full significance except by men whose names have gone into that very real, very definite, and not at all visionary black book kept by the Athletic Association with much labor and accuracy. Aside from all questions of morals and college spirit it is no whit short of blind foolhardiness that could lead a man to take the risk of having to repent at leisure, when the paltry profit made from ticket speculation has vanished into thin...
...United States." This essay was awarded the David A. Wells prize in 1911-12 and is published from the proceeds of that fund. The book sets forth the relative position of the American cotton manufacturing industry by means of an international comparison of geographical factors, technical methods, labor conditions, and industrial and commercial organization. To provide a basis for these comparisons and conclusions, the history of the industry in America is traced and its present organization analyzed...
There are two phases to the life of a college professor who holds any administrative post in the University. There is the executive work of administration of Department or Division or Graduate School and there are the scholarly achievements of research and writing. Unfortunately for purposes of division of labor the best administrators are often the finest scholars and one form of work often necessitates a crowding out of the other. It is, therefore, little short of wonderful that President Lowell, whose administrative duties are legion, has found time and energy in the last three years to prepare a volume...
...handicap under which former Yale hockey teams have had to labor because of the lack of an artificial ice rink on which to hold practice will soon be removed by the completion of a large rink now under process of construction in New Haven. The construction work is being done by the Judd Engineering Company of Boston for George G. and W. G. Powning, of this city. When this work is completed, New Haven will have the only artificial ice skating rink of its kind between New York and Boston and one of the largest artificial ice manufacturing plants...