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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action of certain Harvard undergraduates in attempting to act as strike-breakers in the telephone situation was, I think, very ill-judged," said Miss Julia S. O'Connor, president of the Telephone Operators' Department, to a CRIMSON reporter on Saturday. "We discussed the incident of last Thursday night in our conference with the Mayor this morning, and agreed that it was the work of a few individuals only. I do not believe that they represent the entire undergraduate body of the University, for I think that most of the Harvard men are in sympathy with our ideas. I am sorry...
...believe that you and all other right minded individuals connected with Harvard University will share my regret at the position in which the University has been placed by the men who have been acting as strikebreakers in the Boston Telephone Operators' strike. I am quite certain that the conduct of the few students involved does not meet with the approval of the University...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...
...statement was issued last Friday by President Lowell, Professor Charles R. Lanman and Professor Theodore W. Richards '86 that the use of their names in connection with certain peace propaganda was unauthorized. A document had been circulated under the heading of a "Request of the Dutch League of Nations Committee to the Rulers of States, Members of governments and of Parliaments, and Delegates to the Peace Conference" asking them "to forget and forgive" matters connected with the war. The University names were attached to this document without authorization, and President Lowell and the others entered a protest of "while fervently...
Before the end of the year, the University proposes to make certain changes in its system of concentration and distribution. Just how extensive the contemplated modifications are, we do not know, but it is not impossible that when the leaders of the Faculty discuss the situation, their reforms may be almost as revolutionary as those at Yale...