Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Americans. We cannot fight our government. We comply with the mandate of the court, but under protest." This statement of Mr. Lewis, representative of the United Mine Workers' of America, is one which renews the faith of the nation in the patriotism of one large group in our society. So long as there is a law, it must be obeyed. A free and democratic government is that which affords opportunity to the people to strike out or change what seems to them an unjust law. Ours is such a government; if enough people can be persuaded to their side...
Lack of faith on the part of a large section of the working class in the the motives of the capitalists, and especially in the so called public, is the underlying reason for the multitude of precipitous strikes. "We cannot delay, we cannot arbitrate; the public, because of its self-interests, will never see our point of view," was the plea of one of the leaders of the 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...
...France," he concluded, "the students are only now coming back to the universities and one cannot yet say definitely as to the extent of the changes the war has wrought but that education has cased to be a class privilege can no longer be doubted...
...from Cambridge to the convention, but the committee here hopes to have this quota much enlarged. At attempt is now being made to let the University send as many representatives as wish to go, but as it will take some time to hear about this matter definitely, the committee cannot yet say who will or will not go. When the University's quota is decided upon the committee will choose the men to go from those who have signed...
...formidable opponent. As a result the strength of the Yale team is at best problematical. Defenders of the Yale football attack and of the new coaching system of which Dr. Sharpe is the head, are unwilling to make any positive assertions and admit that the strength of the eleven cannot be estimated until the clash with Brown. Either the coaches are holding back some more effective scoring plays than they have disclosed, or else much remains to be done, before Princeton and Harvard are met, in giving the "big blue team" the essential drive...