Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard effort to balance the budget by discharging a few scrubwomen rather than pay them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which still flourish, one may hope, in the older departments of the university. It is a tragic collision, in which the humanities have been knocked out. --Springfield Republican...