Word: paid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a position vacant in the Anglo-Chinese College at Foochow, China, for a teacher of Physics and geology next year. The salary is adequate for comfortable living, but the travelling expenses out and back are not paid. This college does not consist entirely of Chinese, for there is a foreign community there of nearly four hundred. Those who have gone out there report the life varied and interesting, and not at all in accord with the weird ideas that are sometimes prevalent in regard to conditions in the East. Immediate application must be sent in as the appointment...
...counting Hawaii and Porto Rico, there were fifty-two land grant colleges and universities having a required term of military service, and these enrolled in their military departments 23,864 students. The movement favored by President Schurman is thus already on its way, but to date, the Government has paid little attention to the work, and it is a definite course of action which is suggested...
...coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty to thirty-five percent. of the price paid by the consumer does goes to the retailer, the services of the latter are far from being dispensable. It is much easier to say that his profit is too high than to show how his expenses can be reduced. "As manufacturers and wholesalers are themselves sentially closely connected with the retail...
...sports of the people react scarcely at all on the universities. In this country, on the contrary, as regards football, university sport is the sport of the people. The real name of 'American' football is intercollegiate football. Last fall, according to Parke Davis, more than six million persons paid to see American college teams play football. This very fact is one of the evils complained of by many thoughtful persons. But it is a fact, and a fact unalterable, because American colleges are essentially of the people, because they are not of a class, which, however much it serves...
...international supreme court, composed of judges appointed for life from the different nations in proportion to their population, would be a great step towards international peace. The salaries of the judges would be paid, through the president of the court, from a pool sum collected from the nations. The court could enforce its rulings on all international disputes by boycotting a nation's commerce, regulated by the free trade principle, and through the marine police force. This force would consist of approximately one hundred light cruisers manned by countries like Denmark or Sweden which have no political or economic ambitions...