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...Labor was against him because he upheld a "yellow-dog" contract...
Coincident with the beginning of the construction of the Dillon Field House, which took place yesterday at the site of the new structure on Soldiers Field west of the LeBaron Russell Briggs Memorial Cage came the announcement from W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, that the contract for the building has been awarded to the G. A. Fuller Construction Company of Brighton...
...Court. All week long Senate sentiment for and against confirmation of this appointment divided so evenly that the result seemed to fluctuate within the narrowest margin of votes. All week long critics of Judge Parker flayed him for his Red Jacket coal case decision upholding a "yellow dog" labor contract, for his political animus toward Negroes. All week long his friends lauded his character, his integrity, his fitness for the highest bench...
...especial brief for the triple agreement. That it exerted a vigorous and beneficial influence on intercollegiate sport is of course, our firm conviction. That Harvard-Yale-Princeton athletic relations can find no more enduring basis than a similar agreement carefully revised is our sincere belief. Nevertheless. If a dual contract between Harvard and Princeton could adequately take into account the interests of Yale's pivotal position, then refusal to negotiate would frustrate all hope of resumption by overemphasizing a set of rules that are excellent but not sacrosanct. Youth is impatient--sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly. It is impatient...
...outside observer at least, another sign of collegiate immaturity. The reason is more fundamental that this. The estrangement is the product, not of hostile feelings between Princeton and Harvard men, but of divergent Harvard and Princeton athletic policies. Harvard desires that all her athletic relations be based on dual contracts, while Princeton has in the past stood for a triangular contract between Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. Failure to adjust these two policies has kept the universities apart...