Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question from a purely practical standpoint. Government employees acting in postal or railroad positions are identical with employees of private corporations, and as such ought to have the right to seek an amelioration of their condition. Past history has shown that parliamentary action is useless. Hence the only satisfactory method is by open strike...
...Donovan '13 showed that a strike was an offense against the government itself and not, as has often been maintained, against business interests. The government must have some method of protecting its property and consequently considers a strike against itself a crime...
...matter of fact the relative success of graduates of public and private schools in scholarship at Harvard is not a very accurate method of judging the ability of these schools even in the field of developing scholars, leaving aside the question of their ability in producing useful and efficient citizens. While from 90 to 95 per cent, of the men at a boarding school usually go to college, the worst scholars along with the best, quite a different condition obtains at the high schools. There, many leave to go directly to work, while those who enter College...
With the lawyer, it is much the same as with the doctor. The true lawyer's idea of his profession does not consist in the ordinary routine expressed by crime, retribution and a fee, but in abolishing the conditions which lead to sin. The effectiveness of this method for preventing crime itself is illustrated by the improvement obtained among the Labrador fishermen, and by the present result of prohibition in the state of Maine. Although the liquor dealers have done their best to make the prohibition law ineffective in that state, yet, since its introduction, the amount of crime...
...twenty-four games in which the present method of scoring has been used Harvard has made a total of 73 points to Yale's 274. The average score of the 24 games is Yale, 11; Harvard...