Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Crimson of the 1st inst. contained a report of a plan proposed at a meeting of the Harvard Base-Ball Association, for the union of the different athletic organizations of the university. The prime objects of this union are the regulation of expenses and consolidation of athletic interests. I should like to see such an union formed here. It certainly could do no harm and probably would be very beneficial. It would undoubtedly be more economical, for, as the system is at present, there is a tendency to extravagance. Each association receives subscriptions and makes expenditures independent...
...Worcester Technology nine will play the Massachusetts Institute team of Boston on the Union grounds next Saturday...
...teachers "organized" in a grand union, but while they confined themselves to legal means they effected nothing. So the Union teachers proceeded to "boycott" the graduates of the chancellor who had refused to join the union and to swear to its statutes and to pay its assessments...
This "boycott" they enforced by refusing to teach the chancellors' pets in the higher branches of learning, and by refusing to let their pupils attend the readings of the non-Union teachers. The chapter and chancellor of Paris, seeing their lawful authority thus obstructed, proceeded to imprison the Union teachers, and as a final sentence, excommunicated the recalcitrant masters. Then they strengthened their union more and more. When the masters who were excommunicated appealed to Rome, the Pope recognized these unions as corporations and thus practically gave the teachers the upper hand. These corporations became faculties in the thirteenth century...
Departing from its original meaning of ability, Facultas had come to denote a common course of teaching and then came to be applied to the common bond of union between the professors of the same branch of teaching. In 1254 the University in its famous letter to Pope Alexander IV says, "that it was the outcome of the four Faculties of Arts or Philosophy, Theology, Laws and Medicine...