Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...series of entertainments for the benefit of the Cambridge Social Union will be given this winter in Brattle Hall on the following dates: Nov. 20, Concert by Miss Beatrice Hereford. Dec. 11, Lecture by Mr. E. Selon Thompson, Jan. 11 Lecture by Mr. T. Hopkinson Smith...
...there is "juggling" done occasionally with the figures in statistical offices--there is this to say. "Juggling" with facts is impossible. The agents could send in no false figures to the central office for they would be discovered if they did. In the central office itself all political and social tendencies are represented and the statistical editors work in an atmosphere of free criticism of each other and of their chief. From the unscientific data of the part it has been difficult to secure scientific conclusions, and if there have been faults it has not been through lack of integrity...
...figures which can be used everywhere. In this way only can an exact comparison of wages be made. For purely economic purposes use can be made of "positions"--that is, using as a theoretic unit the laborer who works at standard wages for a standard length of time. For social purposes however, there can be no theory in the compilation of figures and we must consider the number of laborers and their time of labor strictly according to truth. When some uniform system has been used for a number of years--then and only then will it be possible...
...course of lectures on the Statistics of Wages. Mr. Wright, who was for many years at the head of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now chief of the Department of Labor at Washington, and has an international reputation as a statistician and as a writer on social subjects. His lectures, which will continue through this week, will consider not only questions of method and scope in statistics, but also the history of wages as indicated by statistics, especially during the last fifty years. They will thus bear on the great social questions of the welfare of the mass...
...Harvard Graduate Club was the first to be formed among the graduate clubs of this country. Its formation set an example which other colleges soon followed. Finally in 1896, the graduate clubs of the country formed a federation, which, since then has held annual meetings for the promotion of social and intellectual intercourse between advanced students at all colleges. Last year the convention, which was attended by about sixty delegates from both men's and women's colleges, was held at New York. This year it will be held in Philadelphia on Dec. 27, 28, and 29. The officers...