Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous story, "looks like a man, acts like a man, and in fact is a man". When a person is made to don a uniform and conceal his ego behind figures printed on a tin disc, he cannot help but lose some of his self-respect, and feel, naturally enough, that he is being put in the same class as a convict, or a Ford. In restoring to him his name and his peace of mind, the employer is not doing him a great favor, but is merely delivering up stolen goods. Uniforms are necessary of course, but only...
...professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when we get rid of the idea that a college education is connected with wisdom or has any fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain in clarification. The business of the college will be to defend the existing order (if it will stay still long...
...town--over the entire town--in the same manner that the street system alone had formerly done. Instead, the matter was left to private interests. City transit was left to be exploited as a business proposition. Profit from the transit service became the principal consideration. In respect to City transit, this was the original sin--it was a sin of omission on the part of the town authorities. It was not the fault of the universally but unreasonably cursed corporations, and occurred in 1832 when the first horse-car line was started in New York City...
When street railway transit became the essential means of circulating and distributing the people, and in this respect replaced foot transit, which made use of the streets alone, then it was that street railways should have been planned and constructed as one of the principal clements necessary in the development of the city. Then such street railway facilities should have completely and comprehensively covered the old and new town area in such a manner that the street railway system could circulate and distribute the population over the larger town just as effectively as the street system alone had formerly done...
...this implement so many specialized shapes, each form being carefully adapted to a certain type of work. It is probable that long ago, New England was the home of a group of Indians who were master workers in wood. They probably equaled if they did not surpass in this respect the wood-working tribes of the Northwest Coast...