Word: works
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...energy of the government has turned to constructive work; the better element is coming to the front...
...Half of our teachers have no training whatever for their work, and half of them have no education beyond the high school. Half of them again do not stay more than five years in the work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
...Under these circumstances, it is of the utmost importance that the salaries of all teachers be raised. The salary of the teacher be raised. The salary of the teacher today has risen to $689, but that is a pitiful sum to pay for the work that any teacher ought to do, even in the lower grades of a remote rural school. That administrative salaries in education are often large does not help in national progress...
King George in person decorated several members of the Unit last winter, and A. J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to President Lowed about the work of the members of the Unit, said...
...Leacock, besides being renowned for his work done as Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, is better known by his humorous books, of which he has written six, among them being "Literary Lapses," and "Sunshine Sketches...