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...most important, the most vital thought in the mind of the worker is "Will I work tomorrow?" I will never forget my first night in a "model" mining town outside of Cleveland. The hour was approaching five and I noticed that children on the street ceased to play, the women on the door steps stopped talking and awaited in terrible silence. Then, at five exactly the mine whistle began to boom.--One, two and then, three. The tension was over. There would be work tomorrow. Smiles came back to the faces of the women and the children began to play...
...varying degree) the undergraduates give too little time to matters of immediate importance in the outside world. In the field of industrial relations, this is especially true. The average student, (especially if, he is under no immediate necessity to earn his own livelihood) is only too apt to forget how his fellow citizen lives. If the problems of industrial relations and living conditions were presented to him as part of his regular study, he would consider them more reasonably when he was outside the class-room...
...memories we shall keep bits of prose and poetry of quality given us in the pages of the earlier numbers of the Magazine. We shall leave to oblivion occasional lapses into the sensational, and ventures toward the goal of publicity for publicity's sake. We shall try to forget the dying periodical's monstrously serious efforts to clamber up on a platform of representation of the University and reformation of all its faults. We shall regret that humorous appreciation of its own foibles did not come sooner to the Magazine--though we may imagine that even a faint consciousness...
...that this government of ours is a government of all the people and not of one man or of some of the people. There must be no question permitted as to the power and authority of the people's government, and we must not forget that whether the instrument is an autocrat or a highly organized minority the control of either would mean the failure of that popular government based on law and order and upon equal rights which Lincoln declared must not perish from the earth...
...Look at General Wood's face and you will know that he is a big man. You see there the signs of experience and thought, intelligence and strength of character. For we must not forget that General Wood has handled large affairs. It is he who was responsible for the reconstruction of Cuba. In short, he is a man of the world, accustomed to deal with...