Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first essential to its success, however, is the co-operation of those persons who have charge of the various important events of the University. Last week there occurred an unfortunate conflict between the Union lecture and the Whiting recital, both of which appealed to a large number of men. This case may have been and probably was excusable. It is a fact, however, that there have been instances in the past when such conflicts could have been avoided by co-operation with those in charge of the Date-Book. We call attention to this in order that the importance...
...Boss becomes the spokesman of the people he represents--giving them what they want because their wants are his wants--because he is their mouthpiece, and being like them, no better and no worse, he understands them. The scene is laid in a large American city, and the conflict is between the Boss who justifies himself to himself, and his neice who sees clearly the destruction that his altruistic intentions--altruistic though they are avaricious -- precipitate. But from blaming the Boss, she comes to understand that not he but the people of whom he is a crystallization, a projected image...
...formidable obstacle to their propaganda. The more people realize that fact, the swifter will be the disintegration of parties which fail to recognize even the existence of the real problems of the day. The Progressives are quite willing to be recognized as the great conservative force in the political conflict which actively beginning in 1912, is to go on for years to come. Mr. Henderson believes that "the time will inevitably come when the Progressive party, its reform program enacted, will disintegrate; for capital, which fills the party's war chest, and labor, which gives it most of its votes...
...unaccountable prejudice in most courses against having these meetings on any day but Friday and Saturday, and the result is that many men have perhaps three or four sections either on the same day or on two successive days. This not only leads to frequent difficulties of conflict, but it tends to concentrate an undigestible amount of work at one end of the week. By a judicious arrangement of sections and of theses perhaps the danger of putting off work until the last minute (often an unavoidable weakness of human nature) may be to some extent escaped...
...true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more of those whose primary object is gain. In such a case the manager has a sense of two distinct obligations, one to his stockholders and one to the public, and these are not infrequently more or less in conflict. For the one he will be called upon to account speedily by those who have power to discharge him: for the other he may be called to account by a vague, intangible public, which is very likely to visit his sins upon the innocent and let the guilty escape...