Education: Strike

Have students the right to strike? Disapproving of the dictates of their pastors and masters, may pupils push aside their books and declare, as a body, that they will cease to be pupils until the pastors and masters meet their demands ?

For five days last week, the trustees of Clemson College (near Spartanburg, S. C.) deliberated thus. The particular case they had to decide was modified from the question in general by the fact that Clemson is a military college, with explicit regulations on "desertion" and...

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