Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every faction has its duty to the public at large; no group of men have the right, as in the case of the miners, to starve and freeze the whole population of the country. But the public has its own responsibilities in regard to every unit in its composition; it must prove to every faction that it stands for fair play even above and against its own interests. When, and only when, the confidence of labor in the public has been won, will we see a tendency towards arbitration in wage and working-hour disputes...
...remodelling process for the reorganized Harvard Engineering School were begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system. This serves the double purpose of furnishing power for the school as well as light and heat for several of the neighboring buildings...
...easy victories, and the sudden change from a weak team to an unusually strong one almost brought about defeat to Harvard. It was clear to anyone that the Harvard team had suddenly come up against something far stronger than it had faced this season, and it took the whole of the first half for the team to get acclimated to the fierce and aggressive playing of a fighting Princeton team. In other words, the Harvard team found itself during the second half, and prior to this time they had been clearly outplayed by a team which was fully aware...
That the nation cannot go on for a prolonged period in the present turmoil of strikes is clear. The whole public cannot be made to suffer continually for the interests of any one group; something must be done to remedy these evils. What must be done is the question on which all classes of society are pondering. Giving in to the strikers at every occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization...
Militarism is a state of mind which poisons the acts and life of a whole nation; and as such it may be totally independent of universal military service. Switzerland, for example, maintains a system of military training that has proved of inestimable value alike to the individual and to the nation; yet, few would venture to say that Switzerland is "burdened with an incubus" or that it suffers from "the odium of professional militarism...