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...work. Most of the attention at present will be given to coaching candidates for the field events, but all men who are intending to try for the meet at the B. A. A. which will be held on February 13, should avail themselves of this early practice. Every new man will receive individual coaching, and--regular squads will be chosen immediately after the Christmas recess...
...that of their opponents. Yale's essential proposition was that though organization of labor has been necessary, and has as a matter of fact resulted in some good, yet on the whole it has tended to put its own interests paramount to those of the employer, the non-union man, and the public at large. Harvard answered this by arguing that the good which trade-unionism has aimed at could not have been accomplished without some encroachment on the liberty of the employer. The betterment of the laboring man's condition which has been to a large degree attained, could...
Rabenold opened the debate for Harvard. He contended that the discussion turned upon the history of what trade-unionism has done. First and foremost it has given the working man the power to say something in determining the condition of employment. In the conditions of modern industry, it is readily seen that-the working man, standing alone, counts for little, if anything, as a bargainer. The working man has but one thing to sell, and that is his labor. Capital controls the machinery, without which that labor can bring no results. The working man is thus at a complete disadvantage...
...working classes, many of whom are foreigners, taking into consideration the frailties of human nature, the inequalities of modern society, the complex and centralized conditions of modern industry, the negative claims that the history of trade-unionism in the past twenty years has been advantageous to the working man and creditable to such labor leaders as John Mitchell and P. M. Arthur, who have given the chief years of their lives to the uplift of the laboring man, and, with him, the general material and moral condition of the whole people...
...Harvard Seniors, and in 1903 over Princeton. He won the sophomore prize in declamation and also a prize for an original oration. In his junior year he was elected vice-president of the Piaeria Debating Society of Bates. In his senior year he was class orator and honor man in English, president of the Piaeria Society and of the Bates Debating League...