Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College professors differ in their opinions much as other men do, and sometimes even more vehemently. The Boston newspapers have recently been giving prominence to a marked divergence of opinion on the part of two Harvard teachers with reference to the Boston police strike...
...year he is giving lectures at Yale also. The brilliancy of his intellect and his capacity as a teacher are generally recognized, but his views on social and political topics run far afield from those which have usually been accounted orthodox, and his recent utterances on the Boston police strike have been hotly challenged by some of his colleagues, as they doubtless will be by many of the alumni...
...listen to intimate anecdotes of Harvard's most illustrious graduate from the lips of his associate and biographer, Mr. Thayer. This meeting will bring home the need of the nation today for the man who had the courage to say during a period of a threatened coal strike: "We will mine coal if the whole army...
...Infirmary, Memorial Hall, the Union and Pierce Hall, will of course be in no way affected. Randolph Hall, Apthorp House and the Freshman dormitories get their heat from the Boston Elevated plant, which in turn gets its coal from the Nova Scotia fields, a district not affected by the strike. The outlying buildings of the University, such as the Observatory, which uses soft coal entirely, fortunately have their full supply in the bins...
...only in the event of a strike by the miners of the anthracite coal in support of the bituminous coal miners that the University will be crippled. Such a strike would, however, have no effect here until the first of January...