Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Frankfurter will introduce the speaker, who is one of Boston's leading lawyers. Mr. Brandeis is prominent through his brilliant work as counsel in several cases of national importance, and is the author of several articles on the trusts, labor unions, and various pieces of legislation. He has recently been arguing for the minimum wage law before the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Arturo Giovannitti, labor leader and author, will speak on "The Present Status of Syndicalism" in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the Socialist Club. Mr. Giovannitti has been prominent in many great strikes, having taken active part in the Lawrence and Paterson troubles. He has also made many contributions to radical literature, his most recent book being "Arrows in the Gale." He is at the present time editor of a syndicalist newspaper in New York City...
...lecture this afternoon, Mr. Giovannitti will discuss the I. W. W. movement in this country, and the development in this country, and the development in the syndicalist movement in Europe. He will explain the theories of Sorel which are the basis of the present French labor organizations, and outline the parallel organizations in Italy and England...
...record the service of the Student Council, and especially of its leaders for the year, the representatives of the Class of 1914, would be not merely unjust, but sadly inadequate. Mondestly they made helpful suggestions; when called upon for service--and the calls were many--they gave thought and labor without stint, in one of the most trying cases of discipline of recent years, performing without flinching and with finest public spirit a necessary, but highly repellent, duty in our College community. Earnest, clear visioned, strong in the vigor of their youth, forgetful of self, they sought but a single...
...lighting system of Sever, where perhaps more classes meet than in any other building, and that in use in Harvard 5, are perennial but urgent. The illumination is at best poor, and the gas given off by the burning jets is so oppressive that the tendency is to labor entirely in the gloom rather than endure the odor. Injury to eyes or to lungs,--these are the alternatives. Recently a professor was obliged to dismiss his class, so bad had the air become on account of these antiquated gas-jets...