Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling the unnecessary, the professors will have brought this education to the level of a puppet show. The college needs men who realize that teaching is a task requiring coordination of body, mind, and soul in actual labor,--a task, demanding inspiring personality, for which reading systems and so called self educational methods are poor substitutes. If the college stands primarily for education, let the college promote education by encouraging and insisting upon more inspiring teaching...
James John Davis, Secretary of Labor...
...Jackson S of State William Hale Thompson S of War Rev. Norris of Ft. Worthf S of Treas Will Hays** S of Navy Albert E. Fall S of Int Harry F. Sinclair Atty General Geo. Remus Post M General Dr. Frederick Cooktt S of Com Will Rogers S of Labor Emma Goldman S of Agri H. L. Mencken...
Brotherhood, which was encouraged though not adopted by the American Federation of Labor. They said that the Pullman work-wage scale which they protested was: $72.50, plus $58 in tips, minus $33 expenses (shoeblacking, meals, uniforms), for a 400-hr. month. The scale the Brotherhood proposed was $150 for a 240-hour month. The porters also objected to "doubling out" assignments, where porters who have just finished a trip are ordered out on another trip before they have had time to refresh themselves with sleep, baths, visits home...
...Labor to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called Conscience," recommended George Washington to his successors at the close of his public career. This advice found its correlative yesterday afternoon in the text chosen for the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light...