Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently-formed committee will consider and recommend wage-changes for those employed in public house-keeping. It was formed by the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission under the State Commission of Labor and Industry...
Harvard could also, with a minimum of effort, guarantee athletes the same rent rating for four years. This would not mean free rooms; it would mean that a man could eliminate this one variable from his college budget and know just how much money would be needed beyond what he could earn in an outside...
Among his accomplishments: abolition of segregation in New Jersey's National Guard, an increase in teachers' minimum salaries (from $1,200 to $2,200), a sickness-liability law covering 1,600,000 workers and a $50 million veterans' housing program...
This is not as it should be. Men in this position should be permitted to sidestep the useless rote processes of memorization now needed to pass the minimum language requirement. Elementary language is a field where the philosophy of general education simply does not apply. The forgettability factor is too great and a smattering of grammar and vocabulary becomes almost completely worthless in a year or two, if it is not followed up with more advanced courses where it can be applied...
What is needed to remedy this situation is a modification of the present universal language requirement. Since it is feasible that men in certain departments like European history or science might find some use for a language, they should continue to meet at least the present minimum requirement. Perhaps there should even be a broader and more comprehensive one, including some basic knowledge of foreign culture and intellectual history. But for others, an altogether different standard should be set perhaps in some cases no standard at all, since a little language is not worth much...