Word: earning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monroe Doctrine had for its first exponent Washington. In its present shape it was in reality formulated by a Harvard man, afterwards President of the United States, John Quincy Adams. John Quincy Adams did much to earn the gratitude of all Americans. Not the least of his services was his positive refusal to side with the majority of the cultivated people of New England and the Northeast in the period just before the war of 1812, when these cultivated people advised the same spiritless submission to improper English demands that some of their intellectual descendants are now advising...
...plan recently suggested of having student waiters in Memorial Hall, seems to us an extremely poor one. If put into practice, it would offer to about sixty students the opportunity to earn some what less than twenty dollars a month toward their support through college. Looked at in this light alone, the scheme has some merit, though it is very doubtful whether there will be any response to President Lakin's communication sufficiently general to warrant serious consideration of the change by the board of directors...
...organized after the model described by General Booth in his lecture. It has separate buildings for the men and the women, a chapel between, together with a kitchen, dining rooms and reading rooms. Those who show a decided desire to lead a better life are given a chance to earn a living by work in the house. The meetings are held Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, and the superintendent is anxious to have the Harvard delegation take charge of the Tuesday meeting regularly...
...There is danger in existing social conditions. - (a) Right to earn one's living abridged: Century, above. - (b) Hostile feeling of labor towards capital: Homestead and Chicago strikes. -(c) Monopolies...
Some statistics recently gathered at the University of Pennsylvania have a bearing on the question of whether the college graduate is fitted to earn his living. Not long ago a census was taken of the first twenty-five graduates of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. It was found that eight are consulting engineers, with their own offices; seven are superintendents and assistants in large plants, and one has charge of all repair work and special designing in the largest locomotive works in the country. Three manage concerns which they own entirely or in part, two are superintendents...