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...body thoughtlessly to find fault with measures--least of all those of economy--which the authorities have seen fit to adopt, yet in this particular case the final word of remonstrance seems hardly to have been spoken. That the libraries in question are exceptionally convenient and valuable for a small, but perhaps not entirely negligible group of men who are doing graduate work must be perfectly plain to everybody. That these men, since they are few, scarcely fill the the libraries every evening, does not prove that the opportunity of working there at that time is not thoroughly desired...
...Klapproth's home in a small town...
...speaker continued his argument by stating that this dictatorial stand of the unions means an attempt to build up a state within a state: to establish an irresponsible government in the avowed interest of a small percentage of a single class (for organized labor constituents but fifteen per cent, of all the labor of our country). This general tendency, therefore, is detrimental to the best interests of labor and of the whole country...
Weldy, the second speaker on the negative, denied that trade-unionism has shown the general tendency alleged by the previous speaker. The non-union man is the small minority in the unionized trades, and has been injured in times of strike only. This injury to the minority has been necessary for the welfare of the greater majority, but even such injury has been transient and intermittent. Trade unionism strives to secure for the working man his natural rights; to deny these by peaceable evolution--the method employed by unionism--would mean their attainment by violent revolution. The working man loves...
...York City. The Students' Handbook of Oxford, containing full information about the examinations of the university, subject to changes made since the last edition was issued, can be ordered at the same address. "Oxford As It Is," by Mr. Louis Dyer '74 of Harvard and Baliol College, a small pamphlet for the use of American candidates, containing all essential information in a condensed form, can be obtained from Macmillan & Co., Fifth Avenue, New York City...