Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Post Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does not seem to like their plea for complete impartiality as between them and the Government. If he really believes in the justice of a wage of ten dollars per week, if he truly appreciates the difficult situation into which the New England public has been thrown, and if as he says he wishes...
...total number of volumes in the Loan Library is nearly 3,000. This sounds like a large number, but many, probably over half of these are out of date and the need for new books is as great as ever. The need for new books is really greater than ever, as the clothing collection last fall netted scarcely any books at all. A great deal more is expected from the collection this spring...
...safeguard free speech in general and this Freshman in particular. But they are not satisfied with these. For no apparent reason that we can see they come to the conclusion that "The incident brings out very clearly the subjugation of College Administrations to the moneyed interests." Perhaps they would like to see the College Office organized as a committee of public safety with the dean as a sort of academic Marat guillotining the offenders from the University. But the "Young Democrats" also claim that "Nobody would care to see these benighted Knights of Capital punished, least of all . . . . . the victim...
There are few words more obnoxious to the average undergraduate than "compulsory"; it brings up visions of compulsory chapel, oral examinations, concentration and distribution and other features of Cambridge life which we would like to avoid--although we may at heart know some of them to be valuable. There has been a time when the cry against the possibility of compulsory exercise was loud and long, but we have come to believe that a partial adoption of this system is the one way to further the bodily development of the college...
...which they have performed during the war we feel that their continued absence from Cambridge is possibly an unnecessary drain on the effectiveness of University Administration. Would it not be possible to recall some of them from positions at present less important to fill the places of those who, like Professor Haskins, cannot be spared over there...