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...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
...Business School is entering upon its twelfth year with a record-breaking attendance of 365, which is nearly 60 percent larger than the biggest enrolment in the past. While Dean Gay was in Washington as head of the Central Bureal of Planning and Statistics, and since his resignation, Professor L. F. Schaub has been serving as Acting Dean...
...defense of its editorial policy--as weak and spineless a policy as we may ever hope to see. Also, the grandiose statement that, in 316 editorials, three out of four expressed "decided and unqualified opinions," does not affect the vacillation and vacuity of the other twenty-five percent. I should like, for instance, fair play and frank speech on the words "a six-column paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of 'instructor.'" In short, if the CRIMSON keeps on digging its own pit as rapidly...
Whenever statistics concerning sacrifices in the war are compiled, the University feels justly proud of the contribution of her sons to this list. The latest reports show that of the six thousand college men throughout the country who gave their lives, two hundred and ninety-seven or nearly three percent were Harvard men. This total was greater than that of any other college...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...