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...plan is faced with at least one practical difficulty, which is the reluctance of manufacturing concerns to employ men for the short space of three months, especially when there is no promise on the part of the student to accept permanent employment with any particular company after graduation. This is merely another form of the difficulty, that employers are unwilling to take over the apprenticeship or education of students without some immediate and tangible benefits to themselves. In an age of efficiency and sharp competition they can hardly be blamed. But in spite of this it is possible that...
...noticeable in Symphony Hall that the Harvard speakers were chattier than the Boston College men, strayed from the microphone more often and, in a commendable effort to be chummy, unacademic and pretty understandable, did not hesitate to employ terms which would have horrified the late Messrs. Barrett Wendell and Adams Sherman Hill, dismayed the chaste Charles Townsend Copeland and disturbed the poise of Dean Briggs. Boston Herald...
Winnings. Organized contractors (manufacturers) who employ only union labor, agreed to a 40-hour, five-day week. The union agreed to hold in abeyance for a year its demand for wage increases, unemployment insurance. Abolition of sweatshops, prime object of the strike, seemed assured when wholesalers signed a three-months agreement to buy only from organized contractors and out-of-town union shops...
Dottin shows clearly and forcefully DeFoe's significance as a pamphleteer and publicity man, first in the employ of one political faction, then of the other. In the middle pages of this book., DeFoe appears as the first yellow journalist, the first crusading journalist--the two being not as the first ghost writer and moulder of public opinion. Even Bernais and Ivy Lee need not have scorned some of the coups pulled by this 18th century writer...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine tells the story of an obscure benefactor of the college, who chose to call himself George Smith. Where he was born nobody knows. He came into the world as Connelly, son of a porter in the employ of a great mercantile house in St. Louis. The name indicates his adventurous and individualist spirit. One regrets that he abandoned it for its neutral substitute. He did this in honor of James Smith, head of the firm, who, without adopting him, treated him as a son. Mrs. Smith was equally fond...