Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more closely than ever before to the civilized nations of the earth, and that it will be wise...
...school of education that will be established after the war, care must be taken to give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit is for the most part training toward that end; the coming hour exams are in the nature of an attempt to discover what ability each man has developed along these lines...
...attempt to prevent further unsettled conditions, the University has recently announced that it will make affidavits in support of claims for deferred classification in the draft, in behalf of all its instructors which it deems necessary during the ensuing year. At the present time a list of those men who, in the authorities' judgment must be retained, is being carefully prepared. This will be published as soon as possible...
...whole should be pilloried for the slight mistakes which one or two may have made. It is furthermore unjust to make the inference that the recent reorganization of the Corps is due to their incompetence. As a matter of fact, the change is chiefly one of administrative detail,--an attempt to centralize functions which it had previously been necessary for three or four persons to perform. There is no intention of eliminating the Faculty from the instructing staff even though we have been so fortunate as to secure a number of National Guard officers to augment our teaching force...