Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...printers' strike in New York. In other words, a part of labor believes the public more interested in its own convenience and pocket-books than in seeing justice done. Such a pessimistic outlook is ruinous to the proper functioning of government. If every workingman becomes an advocate of "direct action" we will see mob rule established in a very short time...
...Constituent of the 5th District. The United States Government was taking action with which I did not agree. I knew that there was a legal, constitutional method of making my opinions known on the subject by voting for a representative who would represent my beliefs. In accordance with the constitution and laws of the United States I went to the polls and voted in a legal, constitutional manner. A friend of mine, an advocate of direct action, smiled; he told me it was useless. Despite many disappointments I held faithful to my believe in indirect, representative, legal, constitutional action...
There will be a Freshman mass meeting in the Common Room of Smith Halls this evening at 7 o'clock. This is the result of action taken by the Committee on Freshman Affairs of the Student Council of which, since the resignation of E. A. McCouch '20, J. S. Higgins '20 is the chairman. This gathering will be for the purpose of stimulating enthusiasm and backing for the 1923 eleven which battles with the Princeton yearlings in the Stadium tomorrow; also to practice songs and cheers...
...drift away from the individual course as a unit in education appears in a recent action of the governing body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical...
...political organization, or as an industrial organization, which somehow could manage without "direct action," the One Big Union might be a successful organization with possibilities of unlimited power. As an organization whose chief functions would be to strike, the O. B. U. would have to possess more organizing ability than its leaders have yet shown if it would end in anything but disastrous failure...