Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attempt by a board of five mediators appointed by the President to bring the two parties together; 4) Attempt to induce the two parties to accept arbitration, the finding of which would be legally binding; 5) Investigation of the matters in dispute by a board of investigation appointed by the President to report to him within 30 days; 6) No strike until 30 days after the report of this board has been made public...
While the acceptance of students for registration is requiring careful work, in is a simple problem compared with selecting men to accept faculty positions. However, 450 boys living together on a steamer for eight months, means one outstanding word--Selection. Certain broad principles were laid down by the leader, Dr. Thwing. Acceptance is based on character first, then scholastic standing, vigorous health, elimination of the lazyminded, and acceptance of those who have something in their minds they wish to study, see, or do. This work looked formidable it is proving very easy. Informationss is easily obtainable. The colleges have shown...
While the government has been busy seeing fair play among general industries, it has pursued an equal policy of moderation in that seat of all trouble, coal mining. Premier Baldwin's conciliatory offer seems in a fair way to be accepted by the associated Trade Unions, if not by the more radical leaders among the miners. Certainly, the Premier's proposal, based on the Coal Commission's report represents a solution which will protect the public as well as the two rival factors of production. The subsidy, which drains the common treasury for the sake of a single class, will...
...This arrangement lasted until April 30, when the workers agreed to accept the recommendations of the Commission, but all that Baldwin offered them was a program of wage reduction and longer hours with no guarantee of future betterment. Negotiations failed and the workers were forced to resort to the general strike...
This moderate offer, unsatisfactory though it is from the human standpoint, is probably the best practical plan for placing the coal industry on a sound basis. With British fondness for the workable solution, the disputants will in all probability accept the Premier's offer in principle. Anglo-Saxons have no desire to chase immaterial utopias...