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...that a man's living expenses must continue regardless or what he is doing but in his application of that principle he forgets all economic laws. A man's living expenses are really invested in what he is producing. If he is working, the investment goes with his own labor to produce a savings account and a higher position in work and society. If he is at college he makes the investment in an education, and additional prestige. One must, therefore, compute living expenses, for his entire college career, together with his other college expenses. To this he should...
...decide, for and by myself, whether or not college is really worth while. After making my decision it was my task to finance my chosen career. Being unable to find anyone who could or would advance me a small fund as a "working capital," it was necessary to labor for four years and save my money. This created a reserve fund of $1,800. for my college career. During my first three years of college I made expenses by working during vacations and at least sixty hours a month during college. Incidentally, I was attending a Far Western college where...
...Until April 10 the price of a complete outfit at the Harvard Cooperative Society will be $9.25, but after that date the price will be advanced to $9.75. After May 1 gowns may be rented at the Cooperative for $4.00. Since the filling of orders is being delayed by labor troubles, Seniors should be measured at once in order to be able to appear in the class picture. After May 1 Seniors will wear caps and gowns to all classes before 1 o'clock...
...remedy" for the deep rooted antagonism of capital and labor "lies not in the destruction of capital, which is vital to our existence and beneficent in proportion to its abundance, but in taking out of the hands of a small class the duty of providing it, in recognizing its fundamental importance, and in having the community itself, and every man in it; according to his ability, provide the capital necessary to our life and well-being." Then "every man would be a capitalist and the war of class against class would disappear...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...