Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...
Last year the Faculty voted to establish this new degree, and adopted rules which were approved by the Board of Overseers and printed in the CRIMSON on May 17. The requirements for the new degree within the various divisions and departments were not, however, agreed upon by the Faculty and it was voted on June 21 to refer the recommendations of the divisions and departments to a Committee of Divisions consisting of one member from each division. At the last meeting of the Faculty this Committee recommended general regulations (printed below), and a set of requirements of the different Divisions...
...undergraduate work, as it is the only one in which the element of individual fitness is allowed to play a part. There are as many different temperaments in a college community as there are different men. All cannot be made to conform to the same standard. The attempt to establish such a standard gives us merely the out-word form of scholarship and not its real benefits. The worth of a liberal study does not depend primarily upon the subject matter studied but upon the response which it awakens in a student...
These two elements, individual fitness and individual interest, constitute the essence of vital scholarship, which reacts upon the student for his own benefit by raising the standard of instruction throughout his college course. Official protection is withdrawn from certain studies and the professors are compelled to establish course of such intrinsic interest as to cause students voluntarily to elect them...
...offer of eight friends of Edward W. Hooper '59, late treasurer of the University, of $25,000 to establish at Harvard the Edward W. Hoope fellowship, was accepted. Regulations for applications are undecided, except that there is no restriction. The contributors of the gift are Henry Adams '58, W. S. Bigelow '71, J. C. Gray '59, C. F. Folsom '62, F. L. Higginson '63, Major H. L. Higginson h. '82, T. K. Lothrop '49, H. P. Walcott...