Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...utilization of women. For this, it would be necessary for those who are not now at work discharge their servants that they might be used for other purposes. The second possibility is in cutting down on luxuries. The men thus released could enlist or turn to more necessary production. Similar results would be obtained if we all wore our old clothes twice as long. The textile industry could then cut its labor in half...
...monster mass meeting will be held in the Boston Opera House tomorrow night at 8.30 o'clock under the auspices of the Committee of the Patriotic and Civic Organizations of Massachusetts. Resolutions similar to those adopted at the Madison Square Garden meeting in New York will be read, urging that Congress take definite action consistent with national honor...
...Faculty are making every effort consistent with the position of the University to place the full military and naval strength of the College at the disposal of the Government. Although no such decisive step has yet been made at Yale and Princeton, these universities are expected to take similar action in the near future...
...this statement, made last night, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has given to Dean Briggs the power of putting a stop to all intercollegiate contests in which the University is concerned whenever the military situation seems to require it. Similar action has recently been taken by Yale and Princeton. It was deemed advisable to centre the authority in the hands of one man, in order that nothing may delay decisive action if occasion arises...
Another educator applies a similar criticism to the research and graduate work done in American colleges. He finds that students doing more advanced work do not show the initiative and originality they should, and consequently are passive and docile in their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...