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British labor has learned from the great railway strike and the nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been...
...especially for a series of College Nights, run jointly by the Union and the Christian Association. This latter organization also has its home in Rockefeller Hall, its object being to centralize and direct the religious activity of Brown men. The work of the Association is nonsectarian and covers a wide field, including the management of the Employment and Equipment Bureaus, social extension work in the city, classes for special study and the like...
...Faculty of Medicine offers a course of free public lectures to be given at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, on Sunday afternoons, beginning January 4 and ending May 10, 1914. There are nineteen of these lectures by as many different authorities on a wide variety of subjects dealing with the diseases, care and study of the human body. On January 4, the first lecture will be delivered by Dr. W. B. Cannon on "Recent studies of the bodily effects of fear and rage." No tickets are required for these lectures...
...Great Work of the Bussey Institution" is the title of an article by C. Dunham M.'87, chairman of the Overseers' Visiting Committee. Additional recognition is given to the activities of the University in a three-part article on "Harvard's Wide Interests in Medicine." The first concerns the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the author being H. A. Christian p.'03. "Tropical Medicine: The Expedition to South America" is by R. P. Strong, and the third, by E. B. Drew '63, is entitled "The Harvard Medical School at Shanghai." The number is completed by a consideration of "What the Boston...
...each student will have a bed-room to himself, and part or all of a study; a bath-room with modern plumbing will be connected with every suite; substantial furniture will be supplied; and, all of the dormitories being constructed on the "separate-entry" system, there will be a wide variety in the ar- rangement of rooms. The division of rooms for one, two, three, or ever more, men is based on preferential statistics compiled from the answers of 635 members of the class of 1916 to questions put to them last year for this purpose. The rent will approximately...