Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then, as to the competition itself. It is hard work, and does not profess to be otherwise, but the drudgery and protracted labor which cause many of the stagnant-minded to fight shy of it is one of its greatest values. For this teaches accuracy, alertness, and, perhaps most important of all, that which so many business men complain that college graduates lack--a sense of discipline. Beyond these, the competition places a man in touch with the leaders in the various undergraduate and University activities; and opens to him a glimpse of Harvard as a University--the world...
...association has recently been formed by various undergraduate organizations, for the purpose of increasing interest in international problems and relations. A course of lectures is being planned on International Polity, including such subjects as peace, armaments, diplomacy, and the international aspects of economics, the labor and suffrage movements. The wide scope of the association requires the co-operation of all those clubs which study movements extending to other nations and accordingly the Cosmopolitan, Diplomatic, and Socialist Clubs, the Undergraduate Economics Society, the Social Politics Club, and the Suffrage League have readily joined in the project. Replies have not yet been...
George Lansbury, British Socialist and former member of Parliament, spoke at a joint meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs at Brattle Hall yesterday. He told of the labor situation in England, as it has arisen from the recent industrial uprising in Dublin, of the immanence of public ownership of railways and coal mines in the United Kingdom, of the problem of unemployment, and of the Woman Suffrage movement...
...British labor has learned from the great railway strike and the nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been...
...Lecture. "Labor and Social Discontent in England," by George Lansbury in Brattle Hall...