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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pasteur Medal, offered annually by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the best speech in English upon some subject of contemporary French politics, was awarded at the final debate last night in the Music Building to L. Brentano '18. Six men, chosen from the preliminary contest held two weeks ago, discussed either side of the question, "Resolved, that the French Government should take by taxation all excess profits made by French manufacturers and tradesmen because...
...debate for the Pasteur Medal offered annually by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the best speech in English upon some subject of contemporary French politics will be held in the Music Building tonight at 8 o'clock. Six men will each be given 12 minutes to speak on either side of the question: "Resolved, that the French Government should take by taxation all excess profits made by French manufacturers and tradesmen because of the war." The contest is held under the joint auspices of the French Department and the University Debating Council...
When the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps sent its delegation to the second Federal camp at Plattsburg last August, there were not a few in Cambridge who knew that these men would succeed. Such a view was founded on the best of reasons--the instruction here had been excellent and these men had worked. Many of them had been competing for the chosen places at Plattsburg since last April, for at the time of the first camp they were too young to enter. They spent hard months at Cambridge and hard weeks at Barre with a serious purpose, and when...
...pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them...
...first requisite of loyalty is enthusiastic and intelligent support of the Government in its war policy. In all countries, it has been the most highly educated that have most strongly supported the war against Germany because they best realized what a defeat from that nation would mean to the world. Enthusiastic support means work, and particularly cheerful work, both in the curriculum and in the military side of the university. Intelligent support means that each man is to prepare himself for the work for which he thinks. himself best fitted. In general, for the men here that signifies preparation...