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...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...
...give its readers at any time of the year so excellent a number as that which starts the present volume--the thirty-ninth--is an achievement for which the Monthly may be proud. But coming as it does at the beginning of a year it reduces to the minimum the suspicion of its being a merely temporary improvement and practically assures the permanence of innovations, of no inconsiderable moment, and a return to a sane view of what is due to a college man from a magazine published supposedly for his benefit. In this light the latest development...
...more quickly, in the end there is no distinct advantage. The theory is that while the plant is dormant it is in a period of rest which the alkaloid artificially increases, so that a shorter period of time is required to reduce the period of dormancy to a hypothetical minimum. As soon as that point is reached the plant commences to germinate...
...defeated Brown yesterday by a score of 5 to 0, in an excellently played game, but one that from the spectator's point of view was somewhat lacking in interest, because the sharp fielding and weak batting of both teams reduced the base-running and the scoring to a minimum. Both Lynch and Clarkson pitched with remarkable effectiveness, the latter allowing the Brown team but three hits, striking out nine men, and giving no bases on balls. This brilliant work in the box, furthermore was supported by perfect fielding on the part of the whole University team, so that only...
...official trials each man is required to complete his total test within thirty minutes, a premium thus being put on speed. To make the trial a criterion of general physical efficiency it is provided that no man shall score more than a certain maximum or less than a certain minimum on any one exercise...