Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copeland '07, Professor of Marketing, and James Ford '05, Associate Professor of Social Ethics. It will be glad to receive an application from any person who believes he or she is qualified, and will also welcome suggestions as to eligible candidates from organizations for research, and from business or labor organizations which have had experience in this field. The Committee furthermore reserves the right to take the initiative in seeking out candidates. The Fellowship will be awarded by the President and the Fellows of Harvard University on the recommendation of the committee. Only one appointment will be made...
...seems that his aim is much more serious than merely to provide the famous lamb with another opportunity for a whack at higher education. The school is to be an example to all of New England. By its methods and training it will show the great need of manual labor, if Mr. Ford's expectations are fulfilled...
...persons, as it is divided in England between the president of the college, whose interests are primarily scholarly, and the chancellor whose function is executive. In this country, however, the scholar and the business man are apt to be at such opposite poles of thought that such division of labor would only result in friction. It might even be suicidal. So authority must be vested in one man, a man of infinite tact and courage, who must balance Babbitry and philology...
...Passed a bill creating a Division of Safety in the Department of Labor (Bill went to the Senate...
...trees for his Massachusetts farm. Farm papers told their readers that five acres of mulberry trees would support a family sumptuously. Nine state legislatures established mulberry and silk-reeling bounties. As always before, the boom languished. The industry stayed where it had started 50 centuries before, in China, where "labor is almost as cheap today as when the first wild silkworms were brought down from the hills...