Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After playing Cornell today the team will immediately board a train for Princeton, where they will arrive tomorrow morning. They will meet the Tiger soccer players in the forenoon to avoid conflict with the football game...
...carrying out this program of universal training we must, as Colonel Goetz states, be careful to avoid "the odium of professional militarism". To accomplish this, our army camps are to embody the "worthy and important object of training first of all for better citizenship." This, of course, begs the whole question...
...problem seems to be, how to have a professional military, without incurring the odium attached to it. It certainly is a big problem and it certainly is a big problem and it certainly is an enormous odium. Even a professional soldier wishes to avoid the odium of militarism, and so our army is to be that fine institution, a school! This certainly is a notable transformation...
...problem is to provide for armed protection, and at the same time avoid the odium of militarism. One is as important as the other. It is our problem to provide for armed resistance, and at the same time to avoid the odium. Universal military training seems to promise both these objects. Let us rather trust in ourselves to avoid the extreme of militarism than rely completely on the untried security of universal confidence...
...through the entire stand and mingled with an audience who were there to see and not to cheer. A few Brown rooters in a compact mass completely out-did us. By reserving Section 32 behind the band for University men until the game begins the H. A. A. could avoid the scattered cheering of Saturday. But that is not enough. When the University singing is so weak it cannot be heard above the band on the other side of the Stadium there is shown a deplorable lack of energy throughout the crowd. If Harvard is to sing...