Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four of Harvard's squash teams will see action today. Team A will complete its match with the Harvard Club which was begun yesterday afternoon, team B will play at M. I. T., University team C will oppose Country Day School, and Freshman, team-D will engage the Harvard Club of the same class...
Upon learning that action had already been taken to place the charwomen in positions around the college buildings, or in jobs similar to the work in the library, the ladies left for home, but not before several Boston newspaper photographers had taken pictures of the group...
Harvard's horsemen will engage in a match at the Commonwealth Armory this evening in which they will find their coach opposing them. Coach Sharp, who usually guides the Harvard malletmen during a game, will have an opportunity to test his charges in action...
...delegation of women from several Boston societies visited the office of A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, yesterday afternoon to protest against what they believed to be unwarranted action on the part of University officials in discharging the scrubwomen of Widener Library...
Threatened with action by the Board, the University authorities, evidently in a fit of obstinate pique, fired all the women, with a curt note that they would later be re-employed as conditions permitted. There seems to be no possible excuse for the authorities' not paying off the women with at least a week's advance. Granted that the persons handling Harvard's financial affairs have to do it carefully and wisely, it is absurd for the richest university in the country to act like a penny-pinching miser. The University does, to some extent, act charitably in employing women...