Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lockheed Hudson bombers cost $90,000, take 24,000 man-hours apiece to build. From its 20,000 employes (average pay: 75? an hour) Lockheed-Vega solicited voluntary pledges of two or more hours of pay per man, planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50...
To Harvard there comes, then, an opportunity. The University where William James once taught can pay him tribute, by fostering one of these work-camps and its "moral equivalent of war": raising money to start a venture patterned after the voluntary experiments of the Quaker and Work-Camps for America...
But character building and job training will not provide for America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a...
The decision was made after the Student Defense League submitted its petition asking the Council "to investigate and bring to reality the possibility of obtaining War Department supervision of the system of voluntary military training now being developed by the Student Defense League."
It is this question of conducting and rehearsing on which the Harvard Band becomes stymied, and where Michigan really goes into action. The Michigan boys practice three hours a day every day in the week under a professional conductor, and I have been told that they get course credit for...