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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College, it helps students who are working their way, by collecting and lending them text books and law books for a small sum a year; by collecting and distributing suits, overcoats, and other articles of clothing; by providing a place where students living at home can eat their lunch; in special cases, by helping men negotiate loans; by supplementing the work of the College Employment Office; and by offering to students the use of the reading room and library...
...broken hearts because of the hopelessness of their cause. Stubbornness, born of an innate intellectual complacency, is one of the hall-marks of the typical college professor, and it takes a mighty jolt to wake him into a state where he can see beyond the rim of his text books...
...labor union was one of the first and most important agencies to support laws to prevent the abuses of woman and child labor. In addition the union started a campaign for better public schools, advocating that education until a certain age be compulsory, that text books be supplied free and that extension facilities such as night schools be introduced. Ever since then the trade union has carried on an active campaign to secure better education facilities...
...approach of mid-years, however, indicates more than the more passing of time; it also means that the undergraduate must give up a few of his pleasures and outside activities, in order to apply himself in some measure to his neglected text-books and tutoring schools. For inside of two weeks there must be injected into his world-weary brain all the knowledge which for the last three months he has allowed to slide joyfully from his thoughts. What is worse, failure to do this will result in the outlawry of probation, and all the shocks that undergraduates are heir...
...aims of labor unions. So much publicity is given their discreditable acts, that their usefulness is often overlooked. Among the aims mentioned by Mr. Fechner, is the campaign to carry on educational work among the workers. Not only do the unions advocate compulsory education for children, free text-books and the extension of night schools, but they would have opportunities for study so widely offered that all labor might avail itself of the chance to better its existence. Trade schools and classes organized by employers are valuable, but the benefits so derived are limited to the working forces of certain...