Word: contender
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many leaders in business, government, and the professions contend that whereas capital once exploited labor, today labor has gained so much power that it is beginning to exploit capital. Whether or not this statement is true, one fact is undeniable: when the differences between employer and employee are settled by arbitration, although trades unions do not necessarily obtain their demands in full, nearly always they are granted some concessions. According to the New York Herald, "A force has been unleashed which will be difficult to control. The trend is unmistakably in the direction of submission by all invested capital...
Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic...
...interests are and how they may be best protected, unless we deny intelligence to women we must accept it as inevitable that there may exist the same differences of opinion between men and women,--between father and daughter, husband and wife, brother and sister. And unless we wish to contend further that women's opinions are inferior to men's we cannot but conclude that to confer the expression of opinion by the ballot exclusively upon the male sex is as absurd as it is unjust...
Coach Rush has had to contend with many misfortunes this year on account of illness and ineligibility. Tibbot and Law are both on the sick-list thus weakening the backfield and numerous other important men have been kept out on account of ineligibility...
Last week the team came through in championship form, taking a game from Brown and clinching the Princeton series with a second victory over that aggregation. This is more commendable as the nine has had several severe set-backs to contend with. Captain Ayres was taken sick and has not played all spring. Coach Sexton resigned in the middle of the season. Fripp, who was holding down third base got scarlet fever. Haughton took command as coach and Hardwick was made captain and to their efforts the team's success is due. Their efforts deserve all the backing which...