A Handbook of Vocational EducationMacmillan, 1914 - 225 pages |
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... wage earner at fourteen is not so fortunate . In New York the law compels him , if he is not a graduate of the elementary school , to attend an evening school , there to pore over books after a day's labor . But it seldom offers him ...
... wage earner at fourteen is not so fortunate . In New York the law compels him , if he is not a graduate of the elementary school , to attend an evening school , there to pore over books after a day's labor . But it seldom offers him ...
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... wage earners . Line b is the significant feature of the graph . Note the differ- ence between this line in the two diagrams . In America the boy wastes his precious years between fourteen and sixteen in idleness or unskilled and ...
... wage earners . Line b is the significant feature of the graph . Note the differ- ence between this line in the two diagrams . In America the boy wastes his precious years between fourteen and sixteen in idleness or unskilled and ...
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... wage earner within the last sixty years . These factors are ( a ) the substitution of machinery for hand labor , and ( b ) the aggregation of capital and the subsequent concentration of manufacturing into enormous establishments and ...
... wage earner within the last sixty years . These factors are ( a ) the substitution of machinery for hand labor , and ( b ) the aggregation of capital and the subsequent concentration of manufacturing into enormous establishments and ...
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... wage earner in an ill - ventilated and ill - lighted shop or store.1 The wages they receive at first hardly suffice to pay the car fare . If they go to a factory , they learn to operate a single machine ; but they get no comprehensive ...
... wage earner in an ill - ventilated and ill - lighted shop or store.1 The wages they receive at first hardly suffice to pay the car fare . If they go to a factory , they learn to operate a single machine ; but they get no comprehensive ...
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... wages , but is permitted or required to attend a trade school for a certain stipulated number of hours per week in the daytime . In this way the pupil has real shop experience and at the same time gets the benefit of the broader ...
... wages , but is permitted or required to attend a trade school for a certain stipulated number of hours per week in the daytime . In this way the pupil has real shop experience and at the same time gets the benefit of the broader ...
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Page 194 - In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same...
Page 144 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Page 195 - ... practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise; and this work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agricultural college or colleges receiving the benefits of this Act.
Page 198 - An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 196 - SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, { to the State or Territorial Treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon...
Page 144 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures...
Page 197 - ... shall, by any action or contingency, be -diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by...
Page 195 - ... to each State which shall by action of its legislature assent to the provisions of this act.
Page 195 - That co-operative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise...
Page 198 - Territory of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of Agriculture.