Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pavilion management has announced that no semi-professional hockey will be allowed, and there is no thought, as yet, of inviting any professional teams to play in the new rink. Hearty support of amateur hockey is their avowed...
...beginning of history we have had to struggle against the German tyrant who would have crushed out education had it been possible. When Austria with 12,000,000 people had eight universities, we, with a population of eleven million, were allowed but one. Having attained our freedom, our first thought is to provide sufficient schools and universities to accommodate the coming generations...
...problems of humans are attacked by those who leave out of consideration the behavior of humans. It is utterly unscientific. It is trying to place in the realm of pure thought problems which have little pure thought in them. Sociology is a branch of learning not open to metaphysics, but calls as much for a careful observation of facts as a physical science...
Such sincerity and temperance of thought and speech in a labor leader as Mr. Plumb displayed in his masterly argument here cannot be safely or successfully met in these times by the utter repudiation of it as a "stump speech." It is not in any spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise...
...with no one else. But the laboring men argue that none of them like to complain to their chief, because, in case of a necessary reduction of hands, the "agitators" would be the first to go. A man outside, skilled in estimating labor conditions, could say what he thought with no fear of dismissal, and could give a more comprehensive view of what was going on in all the factories. This right of representation is no very radical plat-form; it is not only-justified but inevitable. An employer is in no way compelled to accept the advice offered, provided...