Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates to consider what service they can give toward the prosecution of the war during the long vacation. No able-bodied man need be idle this summer in face of the demand for hundreds of thousands of workers from farms, railroads and shipyards. There is no reservoir of skilled labor to fill the needs of these trades. Unskilled men must be trained and of these the college man is best fitted on account of his education to acquire quickly the necessary ability. But a partly finished college education is no "Open Sesame" to a position of command. College...
...reason for the action is that 30 men was not a sufficient number to justify the maintenance of an expensive engineering camp. The high cost of supplies, the difficulty in obtaining the labor necessary to keep the grounds in condition, and the obstacles in the way of engaging the services of an adequate body of instructors, would make the continuance of this branch for a limited number impracticable. The camp was originally designed to accommodate a large number of men and contains quarters, classrooms and drafting rooms sufficient for the use of 150 students. Because of war conditions...
That the measure is a desperate one becomes all the more evident as one considers its effects. In the first place, any bill that throws labor out of employment causes disturbance. Men who depend for, their livelihood on their daily work suffer from the closing of factories. In idleness for several days, they naturally blame someone for their misfortune. The fuel regulator and the Administration behind him are very likely to be the object of their criticism. Through the checking of industry, the Government runs the risk of losing the workman's hearty support. Not only internal, but also external...
...more than likely that the answer is found in the political and social structure of Australia. That country is one which has founded not only its social and economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more...
...edit a volume of college verse is a labor of love; to disparage a labor of love is an ungracious act. Yet it is impossible to commend unreservedly "The Poets of the Future: a College Anthology for 1916-17"--the collection of 165 poems that Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind presents after culling over the "several thousand" that were submitted to him by the poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived...