Word: unionized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After enforced idleness of more than two years, owing to the war, the Harvard Wireless Club will resume its activities next week. A license has already been taken out by the club, and a station has been established in the basement of the Union, on the Quincy street side. This station is equipped with a complete modern transmitting set, and the club expects soon to have the most recent type of receiving apparatus. The club will hold its first meeting in its new quarters on next Wednesday at 4.30 o'clock...
That every man has a right to affiliate himself with any organization or union to better his own economic condition is the view of Mr. H. J. Laski, University Lecturer in History and Government, Contrary to the usually accepted opinion, he would lay the blame for the police strike not on the policemen, but on the commissioner, who, according to Mr. Laski, was in large measure responsible for it. He asserts that the commissioner, knew that the men were forming a union, and later knew that they were going to strike, but that he failed to take such action...
Denan H. A. Yeomans, Director of the American University Union in Europe, announces in a letter to President Lowell the opening of a group of new courses at the Union which are especially planned for students foreign to France. It is felt that these courses will be of particular interest to American students...
...Rhodes scholarships which were postponed for the duration of the war, have been resumed this fall. The Rhodes will provides that two scholars shall be studying constantly at Oxford from each state in the Union. Each scholar stays three years and receives a stipend of $1500 a year, out of which he pays his tuition, fees and other expenses like any other student. Tow scholarships being assigned to a state, and each scholarship being tenable for three years, there is one year out of every three in which no election takes place...
...Library Committee has also been appointed, consisting of: Professor G. H. Chase '96, Chairman, Professor C. T. Copeland '82, M. E. Lowell 1G., Librarian, and L. T. Lanman '20. This committee will meet within a few days-to determine the general policy in buying books and periodicals. The Union Library is in exceptionally good condition this year, 200 news books having recently been added, while the 150 Harvard writers of war books are expected to contribute their works. There are on file newspapers from all of the important cities in the United States, and, in addition, arrangements have been made...