Word: earning
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed...
...that of the unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have...
Wonderful Chance to Earn...
...Freshmen who find eating at their halls a strain on their finances. Rather than change any part of the "commons" plan, it will do its best to help a man find some way of meeting expenses so that he need not be under the double handicap of having to earn his way through college at the risk of losing one of the most valuable things Harvard can give--the opportunity of becoming acquainted at the outset with the men who are to spend four years together in college...
Today the largest group of college men intend to enter business and yet it must be admitted that the college graduate is not at graduation so well fitted to earn an immediate living as is the engineering graduate. Business schools have come into existence because languages, literature, pure science and history have little immediate use in business and therefore for the untrained man the transition from college to business is difficult and discouraging. Schools of theology, medicine and law have been well established for many years. These schools break down the transition from college to the older professions, but until...