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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chest still flatter and farther back. 3. Abdomen completely relaxed "Slouchy". 4. Back all curves exaggerated to the extreme. In 1916 when we only took into consideration how the men stood, we found the percentages were as follows: A 7.5 per cent, B 12.5 per cent, C 55 percent, D 25 per cent. In 1919, taking into consideration both how the individual stood and how he used his feet, we got the following percentages. A 0.97 per cent, B 14.8 per cent, C 49.3 per cent, D 34.8 per cent. It is of some interest that examined by the same...
...article recently published in the Outlook some interesting figures are given which bring out most forcibly the important position held by the colleges in the life of the country. Although less than one per cent of American men are university graduates, yet this one percent, has furnished...
...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
...five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will...
...Business School is entering upon its twelfth year with a record-breaking attendance of 365, which is nearly 60 percent larger than the biggest enrolment in the past. While Dean Gay was in Washington as head of the Central Bureal of Planning and Statistics, and since his resignation, Professor L. F. Schaub has been serving as Acting Dean...