Word: reading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...labor union for teachers is "novum organum" if ever the sun shone on anything new. We read that the teachers are rushing to affiliate themselves with this branch of the Federation of Labor; that "teachers in and about Boston, including professors at Harvard University", organized the "Greater Boston Federation of Teachers" whose purpose is to fix a minimum salary and procure adequate retirement laws...
...labor organizations. The prestige which the addition of the nation's educators will give the Federation of Labor is not to be ignored. It is a significant fact that that organization is pushing this movement to the limit. But unless our professors see an advantage in refusing to read a book or give a lecture whenever the Federation of labor chooses to call a general strike, it is difficult to see how the profession itself will gain from such an alliance. A federation of teachers unassociated with labor organizations ought to be able to reach their goal without encountering...
...attend an informal entertainment this evening at 7.30 at Phillips Brooks House. The purpose of the entertainment is to make possible a closer co-operation in the future between the workers in the various branches of social service, etc. There will be no business whatsoever. Professor Copeland will read several selections, and the usual refreshments will be served. D. C. Hawkins '20, President of Phillips Brooks House is in charge of the arrangements...
...have just read Lieut-Col. Theodore Roosevelt's statement, and the CRIMSON'S editorial, concerning the organization of a branch of the "American Legion" at Harvard...
...University will read with interest this morning the proposal of Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, reprinted elsewhere, in regard to the establishment of a Harvard branch of the American Legion--the legion of veterans of the war. We believe that there is a decided need and place for such a Legion, and that it will merit and receive the support of college undergraduates throughout the nation; we can but feel however, that the establishment of a branch at Harvard, or any other university, is neither practical nor desirable...