Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...touchback when a player on defense permits a ball, kicked by an opponent, to strike his person and then roll across the goal line, and any player of his side then falls on it back of the line. If, however, such player juggles the ball so that he in any way forces it over the line and he or any player of his side then falls on it, it is a safety...
Work on the gate given to the University by the classes of '87 and '88 has been delayed owing to a strike among the iron-workers. Almost all the iron fencing has now been put up, however, and it is expected that the gate, which stands at the entrance of the Yard opposite Memorial Hall will be completed next week...
...Fairchild lectured last spring before the Economic Club in the Fogg Museum showing original photographs of a street-car strike...
...front and rear of the Administration Building there will be porticos, each with six massive columns rising up as high as the cornice. Work on the buildings commenced two years ago last November. The contract called for their completion in two years, but, owing to bad weather conditions and strikes, progress has been considerably delayed. As all the buildings cannot be made ready for occupancy before about the middle of April, the School will not occupy its new quarters before next fall. The exterior, on all but the Administration Building, is completed. Work is yet to be done...
...Wright has all his life been in the public service. Because of his familiarity with labor questions he was in 1902 appointed recorder and member of the Anthracite Strike Commission by President Roosevelt. His knowledge of the subject is, therefore, intimate and exact. He was University lecturer on wage statistics from 1900 to 1901, and has been a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor. He completed the eleventh United States census, and was in 1895 appointed United States Commissioner of Labor, but resigned the position in 1902 to become president of Clark College...