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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply for domestic use. It would involve stopping the operation of railroads, electric light and gas plants, street railway lines, and other public utilities...
...excerpt from the account is printed: "Dearly Beloved: We have met together upon this mournful occasion to perform the sad office over one whose long and honored life was put to an end in a sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life, which even then eclipsed that of the oldest graduate...
Indifferent cheering and poor singing marked the University's effort to support its team against Brown last Saturday. As a climax to the somewhat "gauche" and enervating exhibition, the Crimson band broke in with a song, while their opponents were still rendering their first...
...academic instruction; and it depends upon the atmosphere, the traditions, and the standards which are there set up and maintained. If the college is only a place, as some critics have charged, where a young man spends four years very pleasantly and not quite without profit, it holds a poor position among educational institutions, and is a doubtful luxury rather than a necessity in a strenuous land. But if it is a community in which young men are striving to make the most of the great opportunities intellectual, social, and physical offered them in its free air; seeking to develop...
...made by Julius H. Barnes, speaking for the Institute for Public Service. The college tuition fee does not represent more than a small part of what each student costs the institution, being kept at a merely nominal figure so that a liberal education may be within the means of poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront...