Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some professional pacificists see in the move for preparedness the subjection of the individual mind to arbitrariness and military despotism. In answer to this argument the advocate of defense replies that it is not servile submissiveness which work in preparation for possible war induces, but steadfastness, discipline, and respect for authority. The United States will never have in any degree a military autocracy. Its democracy needs, however, an efficient fighting servant, which can be used to defend its members...
...immediate answer, to this appeal will be the most effective protest on the part of the American people against this most cruel wrong. At this season of the year, with Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas fast approaching, what more appropriate gift can be made...
...Harvard to be a national university with a local college as its neucleus? The answer is to make the College also national. And the chief reason why it fa9ls to keep pace with the University in national expansion, is to be found in the system of entrance examinations. Particularly in the western part of he country these examinations militate strongly against a greater number of men coming to Harvard, because admission to the local western colleges requires only a certificate. The factor of inaccessibility has been largely obviated by the decision to accept Board examinations. Nevertheless, as long as examinations...
...enlisted for three years, enough to form a battalion of four batteries. In view of the splendid showing made by Harvard men at the summer camps--a showing better than was made by either Yale or Princeton,--it is perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist,--a number which seems reasonable since the military drill will in no way interfere with scholastic work or athletics...
Shall the profession of teaching be a vocation demanding special training or shall it be made the dumping ground for men who merely follow the line of least resistance? Governor Walsh, in his address to the Massachusetts Teachers' Association yesterday, indicated the answer: "Professional training for high school teaching seems to me to be essential...