Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe being interdependent for the commodities of life, as well as for science and the arts. Australia supplies the wool that is spun and woven in England; Canada grows the wheat that Belgium consumes; American architects are rebuilding France; while Vienna sends her greatest surgeon to practice in New York. The principle of every nation for-itself has gone; just as individual craftsmanship gave way to large-scale production, so the group of nations that a hundred years ago consisted of similar...
...prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard Freshman classes prospered without them? Why, then, should anyone regret their absence? Of course excessive roughness must be smoothed; but too much milling robs the wheat of its strength. The position which the college authorities and the majority of the students have taken in this matter is both wise and advanced. Stupid uniformity is the curse of most societies, but freedom of thought and action is an exceedingly good corner stone upon which to found a great university...
...vicious circle. Report or no report, "one egg' or starvation, we must still eat to live and pay to eat. And, unless "something is done about it", committee investigations do little more than give us an uncomfortable feeling, as we tuck in the loose ends of our shredded wheat, that someone may be "playing us for suckers...
Most of the courses are supported from the endowment of the Lowell Institute. By the provisions of the founder of the Extension Courses, the price of a course was to be equivalent to the cost of two bushels of wheat. As a result the Commission has set a fixed rate of $2.50 for a course running half a year and $5.00 for a course continuing throughout the whole year. Fees for those courses not supported by the endowment fund are slightly higher...
...usually by means of flat-boats and barges. One would imagine that this would be one of the cheapest forms of transportation there is, since there would be no lack of fuel charges, and the labor can be hired for a few cents a day. Yet in 1917, when wheat was selling for about eight cents a bushel at the place of production, the transportation charges from there to the United States were so great that it was unprofitable to ship it. Futhermore, most of the cost was due to inefficient transportation in China itself. The cost of sending...