Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singing by the University Glee Club was followed by short talks by the presidents of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, Advocate and the Glee Club. Dr. Howe told of the advantages offered to 1925 by the fact that it was entering the College when things were really back to normal. R. K. Kane '22, captain of the University football team, asked the class to be loyal to Harvard and told of the unusual set of football coaches working with the Freshman team. The difference between the "getting" and "giving" type was described by Mr. Tibbetts, who said that Phillips Brooks House would...
...minds are like the sea after a storm, where, although the wind has gone down, the billows still roll and break, irresistible in their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
...slow; it may be spotty; it may be threatened from time to time by political disturbances in Europe and other world influences. Nevertheless American business is throughly sound at heart. In this country there are one hundred and five million people, most of whom are living in an ordinary, normal fashion, and it is these one hundred and five million people who at the same time are consumers and laborers, merchants and producers. They must be fed, and clothed, and entertained. I am not at all pessimistic regarding the ability of the business men of this country to meet...
Employee representation is the natural and normal development of large scale industry. When industrial units were of relatively much smaller size, contact between man and master was direct, friendly and close. The employer-employee relationship was simple. As industry expanded with thousands of factories employing from half a thousand to ten or twenty thousand men and women, this contact was destroyed. The distance between employer and manager increased. Employer and manager became separated. They could not do business together efficiently because they had no adequate machinery to express the real relationship which necessarily underlies industrial work...
...including substitution of national for district wage systems; extensive payment by result, bonuses, and price fixing without experience. Mr. Clay said one of the most disastrous results of the war to the stability of industrial conditions in England was the severing by the official control of wages of the normal contact between the trade unions and the employers...