Word: toils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intimidate and cast fear into the heart of the people; the workers are afraid to refuse wealth to these men; the rest are the workers, the producers. The first, simply, is that group of folk who live on unearned increment; the second, the great majority from whose extra toil comes the unearned increment in question. Mr. Carver is right. We must do away with the psychology of fear. We must work towards peace and co-operation. We must free the minds of the people so that they will not be afraid to refuse wealth to these men. And perhaps when...
While Princeton has thus been increasing its teaching corps, Yale has been forced to accept a reduction of its faculty. That the war is exacting its toil of professors as well as of students is indicated by the recent leaves of absence granted to members of the New Haven teaching staff to engage in Government service. The tariff commission has called Dr. Bidwell as it called Professor Taussig of the University; a British committee of information has asked for the services of Professor Canby, who will represent American interests in the work to be performed; the City War Bureau...
...glory of the Lafayette Escardrille will not be diminished by its transfer to the American service. Without waiting for the end of neutrality, guided by a feeling of loyalty to the just cause, this band of United States citizens formed a French aviation unit. Their toil and lives were offered to France, while people here rejoiced at our aloofness. They volunteered, as Americans, to serve the nation which for them meant Justice. These men might have joined the Foreign Legion, but they would have lost the distinctiveness of nationality. They might have mingled with French units, but they preferred...
Thus from their toil new orders lift and leap...
...sadly true, however, that Harvard University and the cosmic order are not partial to lawless individuals, human or astral. The long established order of things requires that a man be at one task until he assume another. There is no Nirvanic peace between our cycles of toil. Until a Plattsburg applicant has been definitely accepted at that camp, he is both actually and morally bound to the training corps here...