Word: pay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has no room for men who are attracted by high pay. Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...student who fails to register at the times announced, either before or after the spring recess, will be required to pay a fee of $5,00 to the Bursar. Payment of this fee does not, however, preclude disciplinary action by the Administrative Board...
...sailors may now apply for the $60 bonus which is being given them by the government, according to a recent statement to the press. An extract from the announcement made by the War Department concerning this compensation follows: "Those who have been discharged and have received their final pay without the $60 bonus, should write to the General Zone Finance Office, Lemon Building, Washington, stating their service since April 6, 1917, date of last discharge and address to which they desire bonus checks sent and enclosing their discharge certificate or military order for discharge or both, if both were issued...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...