Studies in Vocational Information: Preparing to Live and to Earn |
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ability agriculture auto-mechanics become Berton Braley better boy or girl boys and girls capital career Census cent chapter character choose course demand depends division of labor earn a living economic Edward Bok EDWIN MARKHAM employed employer engaged factories Factors of Production facts farm field gained Gowin homemaker important increase industry interest job analysis keep kinds lesson lines machine manufacturing marriage materials Message to Garcia Michael Pupin modern necessary notebook Number of Women offers opportunity organization outline person position possible preparation problem production professions pupils qualities QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Sandwick Semiskilled operatives senior high school skilled stenographer study of occupations success teacher things tion trade usually Vocational Guidance Vocations for Girls wages WALT WHITMAN woman women workers Women's Bureau young
Popular passages
Page 24 - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 24 - Play -up! play up! and play the game!" The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke: The gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: "Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 31 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 19 - Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel!
Page 34 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Page 34 - Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
Page 20 - Back of the hammer's drumming, Back of the cranes that swing, There is the eye which scans them Watching through stress and strain, There is the Mind which plans them — Back of the brawn, the brain.
Page 83 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; "Of all who live, I am the one by whom "This work can best be done in the right way.
Page 147 - It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul Goodbye my darling, darling boy.
Page 93 - Agricultural implement factories Automobile factories Blast furnaces and steel rolling mills * Car and railroad shops Ship and boat building Wagon and carriage factories...