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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line-up between the University and second teams, resulted in a score of 24 to 8 in favor of the former. The passing of the University team was swift and accurate and their goal-shooting much more accurate than it has been in the preliminary practice of the past two weeks...
...captains and head coaches of the Harvard football elevens for the past seventeen years have asked a number of the players and coaches of those teams to meet in the Union Club, Boston, on December 16. The purpose of this meeting is to effect an organization which will be able to influence the men in charge of the football at the University so that a definite policy and system of development may be carried on from year to year...
...nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support of eighty-five per cent of the American wage-earners, is strong proof of our contention,--namely, that trade-unionism for the past twenty years has pursued unwise methods, has violated rights fundamental to our whole social structure, has fostered a spirit of selfish tyranny, has sought to dominate the industrial world, and has placed its own interests before those of the whole country...
...incorporate, they are legally irresponsible. The negative, the speaker claimed, falls to disprove the argument of the affirmative that unionism sets its own interests above those of the community. This, as any number of instances of riot and unjustifiable violence show, has been the tendency of unionism for the past twenty years...
Binkerd, in rebuttal, said that although the negative have dwelt on the past of trade unionism the question is not one that calls for balancing past good results with past evil results. The discussion concerns a general tendency. Moreover, much of the good claimed by the negative came prior to the last twenty years. Furthermore all the industrial progress of those twenty years has not been due to trade unionism. The aims of unionism have been essentially selfish in disregarding the rights of the majority; and this is evidenced by strikes, boycotts and their attitude towards the courts. The affirmative...