Word: striking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given the winners, and similar ones of silver the second men in each event, except the tug-of-war, when gold medals will be awarded the members of the winning team alone. The entry list is to be closed on March 2, and the right to reject or strike out any entry is reserved. Entries should be sent to F. C. Walcott, Secretary Y. A. A., 31 South, New Haven, Conn...
...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...workmen on the new recitation hall at Yale have struck, and work has been suspended for several days. The contractors refused to yield in any way to the demands of the strikers, and have engaged non-union men. No great trouble has been caused by the strike, however, and it is hoped to have the walls well up to the second story before it will be necessary to quit work on account of the weather...
...there is a just demand that the evil shall not be magnified beyond its due proportion. One more protest is added to those which have already been uttered by the students against the unfair advantage accepted by the North American Review and its infamous contributor in order to strike a blow at he best interests of our University. The editorials are worthy the attention of all students...
...member of some other college, we cry shame upon him for bringing into question the good name of a sister college; if he is not bound to any college by ties of allegiance, we cry shame upon him for the dastardly blow he has attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North American Review because they have opened their columns to an article such as this. The magazine has been brought from its high place to the level of the most notorious metropolitan sporting papers. we include...