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...Something apparently has got to be done to bring about a shift of this labor away from the coal mines and into other productive industries. Any number of the poorer mines will have to be shut down indefinitely, leaving the coal supply to be drawn from the better class of properties in which, presumably, men working steadily can, at going wages, earn a fair livelihood...
...only way in which this frightful waste can be stopped is by a radial changed in our education methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves worthy of it. At one end of the scale we do differentiate. We look after the blind and deaf we put the feeble-minded in special institutions. It is time that we provided special training to utilize to the fullest extent the best mind of the country...
...would be used for. Men who are unable to help Phillips Brooks in its social service work are asked each year to contribute money to keep other workers in the field, Bean said. The money obtained in this weeks campaign will be used to assist boys clubs in the poorer districts of Boston, to provide Christmas entertainments for the poor, salaries for secretaries who work among them, and in various other ways...
...grades of managers, on the other hand, make a much poorer showing. "In 1919-20", says the report, "the managers obtained no A's, had only about one-third the proportion of B's obtained by non-participants, had nearly twice the proportion of D's and almost three times the proportion of E's. . . . The scholarship of managers and candidates for managerships was strikingly inferior to that both of players and of students not participating in the major sports...
...their attempt to provide gratuitous legal advice to the poorer members of the community, and in so doing to defeat the criticism, so often made of the existing legal system, that "a poor man can not afford to go to court," both the Harvard and Boston organizations have been most successful in past years. The report for the Harvard Society for the year 1919-20 shows that a total of 108 cases were handled, covering all branches of law from divorce to insurance contracts. With its increased facilities the Bureau hopes this year to triple this number...