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...doubt, the famous Tennis Court Oath of the French Revolution was of serious concern to those who took it. At Jarvis Field on spring afternoons one may hear shorter oaths relating to something quite different from political rights, but of far more immediate concern to those who utter them. Due to the increase in the popularity of tennis as an undergraduate sport, the students find that the number of courts available is inadequate to meet the demand. Hardly a day passes when the courts at Jarvis, Divinity, and Soldiers Field are not filled to their capacity. Often the waiting line...
...eight-hour day. The professed aim of the American Federation of Labor had been the adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their...
Great sympathy is due to the men who struck without realizing the seriousness of the offense. Yet there they broke a solemn oath to every citizen. Perhaps Commissioner Curtis showed a failing in diplomacy. Yet there is no diplomatic achievement on the side of the strikers. The principles for the which Mr. Curtis and Mr. Coolidge stand are good and have won the support they deserved...
...agitators to the supremacy of the state. Other strikes, although greatly interfering with the convenience and prosperity of the public at large have in almost no case aimed directly against the government. But the police are agents of the governments of their respective cities and are therefore bound by oath to protect the life and property of the citizens of those communities. Their pay does not come from the profits of a group of private individuals but comes out of the taxes of the people they are hired to protect. The striking policemen hostile to the proper constituted authorities...
...such must attend to their work just as loyally and faithfully as if the war were still going on. No army order ever ventured to assert that the duty of the soldier to obey is in any way lessened in time of peace. To be true to his oath, he must perform whatever task is allotted him with the best of good-will and cheerfulness...