Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...debate at the University Debating Club last evening on the question, "Resolved. That State Boards of Arbitration with full power of investigation should be established throughout the United States for the purpose of settling labor disputes," was won by W. T. Foster 1G., and G. W. Hinckley 1L., for the affirmative from J. Daniels '04, and F. B. Wagner 2L., the speakers on the negative. The critic of the evening was Hon. Arthur P. Stone...
...members of both teams showed great power in adapting themselves to the trend of the argument, and in suiting their own argument closely to 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...
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...
...already commenced. The architects, Messrs, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, of Boston, have drawn plans for six structures of very large size, five of which will be grouped about three sides of a court 520 feet long and 215 feet wide. The sixth building, to be used for a power-house, will stand apart from the main group and will furnish the necessary power for lighting, heating, and the minor mechanical requisites of the School. A building for the Dental School was included in the original plans, but this idea has since been abandoned, for the present at least...
...closing session of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, was held Saturday morning, in Natural History Rooms' Hall, Boston. It was opened by Superintendent W. G. Bates of Fall River, who spoke on, "The Will and the Power to Do and to Be." Reports of officers and committees of the Association followed. Under the general business, a State Educational Council was organized, which will be connected with the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, but which will draw its membership, not to exceed one hundred, from the various educational organizations of the state...