Word: unionizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...
More than anything, the Harvard Union symbolizes the Freshman class's newly-found unity. Built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson, who also gave the College its stadium, to promote "the freest and fullest intercourse between students," the chunky brick building on Quincy Street houses many Yardling activities...
Even Freshman class government takes its name from the Union. Each fall a group of 12 Yardlings, called the Union Committee, is chosen to administer class affairs. Up to last year, the Union Committee was replaced in the spring by elected class officers...
...year, however, Yardlings voted against class elections after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...
Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed. Thin-faced, spectacled Archie Wright, onetime representative of the hard-boiled National Maritime Union of the C. I. O., bought a dairy farm near Ogdensburg, N. Y. Between seeing that his cows were milked, he set out to help form the Dairy Farmers' Union. Last year he became its president...