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Oliver Wendell Holme's once said, "Because I like a pinch of salt in my soup is no reason I wish to be immersed in brine", he might well have been speaking of the modern labor union. There have been workingmen's associations in America since the beginning of the industrial era long before the Civil War. That they have earned an important place in our social organization is unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living...
...Freshmen tied the game in the fourth when C. C. Buell '23 hit for two bases to centre field and advanced to third on J. C. Bancroft's hit, after G. Owen '23 was put out on an infield fly. In the pinch S. J. G. Nowak made a smashing single past the pitcher's box scoring Buell with the tying run. W. Butterfield '20 tightened up, however, and prevented further scoring...
Scott Resnick's feature "Masters, Students Feel Pinch of Full House" March 21, reminded me of my own situation a few years back, in a five-person group crammed into a tiny two-bedroom suite in Winthrop House. At the same time, Winthrop had an unprecedented number of resident tutors. When I suggested in The Crimson on obvious remedy to our predicament, namely reducing the swollen ranks of the rather useless tutors, the response was immediate: a menacing answering machine message from one tutor and an invitation to the Senior Tutor's office for a dressing down for my "ingratitude...
...Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard to believe that the Mexican Federal authorities are as weak as President Carranza alleges they are; when it comes to a pinch, the Mexican executive can manage to get an American freed. The point is that he sometimes does not want...
...this defense that a large part of the attention of the coaches has been focused during the past week. Both Yale and the University have not shown particular strength in meeting an aerial attack in past games, and, as both elevens may use this mode of offense in a pinch, defense against it is of great importance...