Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has my heartiest congratulations on its conclusive action in favor of universal military service...
...action of Columbia University in appointing a committee to inquire into whether any of the faculty were propounding to students doctrines which were submersive of the Constitution of the United States or otherwise unpatriotic is likely to arouse a storm both of approval and abuse. The determination of the trustees to investigate this aspect of university life would be, it was thought, in accord with the measures which have been adopted for mobilization of all the forces at Columbia in the event...
...Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world. The trustees of Columbia, as of other colleges, fail to realize the spirit of criticism in which the undergraduate mind is constantly being trained. Their action is such a matter as that of loyalty or disloyalty to the Government is wholly unnecessary. No more patriotic body exists today than the members of the American colleges and universities. They may be relied upon to treat treason in any form, even on the part of their professors, with...
...with poor form was ever a champion, and good form in any sport is the easiest and most natural way to do that thing best." Form may be studied through running beside or behind other men or by watching one's shadow. Straight ahead leg and foot action is the right sort. In order to lift the knees properly the thighs should be developed by the aid of exercises. Arm action must also be studied...
...meeting of the trustees a resolution was passed approving and confirming the action of the president in organizing the whole of Columbia University for national service and in pledging the loyal support of the university to the United States Government in the cause of national defence...