Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have found the same theme. Labor is unjust, unreasonable, ignorant. I have worked for a year and a half as a factory hand. I belong to the working class. I know that a weary, body-deforming, mind-stupefying, soul-killing grind the worker's life is. I believe I understand the worker's view. Be says, "Give me a square deal and I shall give you a square deal." When capital gives the square deal the day of labor troubles is over. Until that square deal is given the labor question will always be before us. FRANCES T. RUXTER...
...special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...present day students in the University understand the extent or the character of the service rendered to the University by John Harvard. This Englishman set sail for Massachusetts in 1637, after he had gained the titles of "Bachelor" and "Master" in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. At once he settled near Boston in a district known at that time as Charlestowne and immediately became so interested in the college which had been established at Newtowne in the previous year by order of the General Court that he donated half of his estate, $3900, a large sum in those days...
...Post or not, who are interested in doing such work. Little time is asked from each man and his expenses will be paid. From an individual point of view, this is a great opportunity to come into personal contact with these foreigners, whom many college men will have to understand when, as graduates and business men, they become employers...
...modified for those men who are earning expenses under circumstances that interfere with their attendance? Must the men who need money most be asked to pay for meals they cannot eat? Before answering this question, which is suggested in a communication appearing in this morning's CRIMSON, one must understand fully the Freshman Dormitory system which requires first year men to live together...