Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union last night on "The Battle with the Slum." He outlined the work which has been undertaken through the energy of a few citizens, and illustrated with excellent stereopticon views some of the important changes that have been brought about in the excessive crowding of population, the most important factor in the slum problem of New York, and in concluding he urged college men to aid in this work for the social betterment of the city masses...
...laborer and the employer; but such a condition has gradually come about regardless of the efforts to keep it down. In 1789 there was an ordinance passed called the "Liberty of Labor Act;" but the effect of this act upon the actual progress of industry was infinitesimal. The real factor which led to the equalization of laborer and employer, and which also laid the foundations for the great industries of the present, was the introduction of machinery...
That the training tables are conducted extravagantly I am more than ready to admit; but why attack such an important institution blindly, because of its apparent faults, and entirely disregard its inestimable benefit as a factor in our athletic life...
...main part of the lecture dealt with a consideration of the law laid down in the last lecture, that labor was not the chief factor in wealth, but rather was a feature secondary to management. Mr. Mallock stated that the greatest modern thinkers on socialism had abandoned the idea that wealth was due to labor alone, and had agreed with the statement quoted above. These men form a new school of socialism, which undertakes to justify the idea that, notwithstanding the fact that management is the essential in producing wealth, the laborer should receive his just "per capita" average. Four...
...huge size of our national wealth, and the commanding position among the nations of the world which is ours to honor and protect. Our opportunities are unsurpassed to secure a fair portion of the commerce of South America and South Africa. The Isthmian Canal will be an important factor in securing our full share. But we must have a merchant marine to supplement the navy of which we are justly proud...