Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
Returns from the Princeton game will be received at the Union by direct wire next Saturday afternoon, and the results as they are received will be posted on a special football score board in the Living Room. Members who so desire may bring their relatives and lady guests to watch these returns. A band will play during the progress of the game...
...Bullard '20, who has been appointed song leader by the official cheer leaders, will direct the singing, assisted by the University Band. Tonight's meeting will concentrate particularly on the singing...
...CRIMSON proposes that the class constitutions be altered so that the nominations shall be made by a convention. Direct primaries are open to the same objection as the present scheme--the undergraduates would show no more interest in primaries than they do in elections. The class meetings, if properly advertised, would draw a large gathering, and there the name of anyone proposed and seconded would be put upon the convention ballot. Then, by direct election, it could be shown who were real candidates for the respective offices and who were merely vote-splitters. The four or five leading...
...nomination by outgoing class officers and supplementary nominations by petition, or inherently in Harvard students, let it be remedied immediately. If nominations in a general class convention would be better, let the change be made; if a system of having candidates named and seconded in primaries, thinned out by direct voting on the convention ballot, and four or five successful names placed on the final, ballot, would prevent such a shameful showing as on Tuesday, let us adopt that system. But whatever the means, let us take steps to put an end to the alarming indifference exhibited in the recent...