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...show that of the 240 industrial disputes in that state for one year, 139 were for higher wages, 21 for shorter hours and 37 were on the question of trade unionism. The most noticeable, feature of these statistics is that the number of demands for higher wages was 52 percent greater than in the previous report. It indicates clearly the attitude of labor to force its demands without reasoning matters out. For the idea of settling higher wages in proportion to greater production never appeared acceptable to the workers. When this very arrangement was made in the English coal strike...
...consequence of the fall baseball series, the Odin Roberts '86 baseball cup will go from Smith to Standish. The standing was: Won Lost Percent Standish, 3 1 .750 Smith, 2 2 .500 Gore...
...University an opportunity to hear a well-informed speaker on Anglo-American relations discuss the present situation and consequently has arranged this meeting for the purpose. The Loyal Coalition, which has grown from a small group of men to a large and powerful organization, stands for 100 percent Americanism and friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States...
...year ago this fall the Endowment Committee set out to raise a fund of $15,250,000 for the University. Of this sum $12,000,000 was to be applied to a 50 percent salary increase of the teaching force; $1,000,000 was for a mobile fund, to be kept unpledged to meet opportunities which arise for special work or the obtaining of exceptional teachers; $250,000 for the salaries of instructors of physical education; $1,000,000 for salaries of teachers in the Dental School, 80 percent of whom are now unpaid; $1,000,000 for necessary additions...
...close of the campaign last fall slightly over $12,000,000 had been subscribed with 59 percent of the men who had attended Harvard enrolled as subscribers...