Word: section
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lack of faith on the part of a large section of the working class in the the motives of the capitalists, and especially in the so called public, is the underlying reason for the multitude of precipitous strikes. "We cannot delay, we cannot arbitrate; the public, because of its self-interests, will never see our point of view," was the plea of one of the leaders of the printers' strike in New York. In other words, a part of labor believes the public more interested in its own convenience and pocket-books than in seeing justice done. Such a pessimistic...
...Indian Art and Culture" will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum during the remainder of the fall term. These have been arranged under the auspices of the Division of Fine Arts, and will be given by Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Keeper of the Section of Indian Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The lectures, which are open to the public, will commence at 4.30 o'clock on November 19, and will run every Wednesday and Friday afternoons until December...
...movement, exceedingly unwise. In addition to horrifying the entire population of the country, it aroused the special enmity of the American Legion, under the banner of which the murdered men were marching. This latter body, numbering nearly four million men, represents, as it were, a cross-section of American society. In its ranks are enrolled members of all social and industrial classes. The I. W. W., in aiming its weapons against the Legion, is not only increasing the enmity of the so-called upper classes, but is also ruining its chances of successful propaganda among a very large number...
...work. Students at Harvard have long felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system of instruction. Whether the cause is a too definite prescription of work to be done, or lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this cause is due the remark common among graduates: "If I were going through again, I'd work harder," and the attitude common among undergraduates...
While the Crimson eleven runs through its final drill, the cheers and songs will be practised as they will be done in the cheering section at Princeton. Since only 400 men will be in the Harvard section at Princeton they must out-cheer the Tiger supporters...