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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...banners of war, thought to undertake it lightly as they had undertaken other pursuits lightly. We must acknowledge that war, in its most poetic and gaudy guise, is far too terrible a work to be undertaken lightly. For such men a continuation of their college course would be the best course, both as regards themselves and their nation...
...guide the human machine intelligently, we must study the various parts of the machine and then its activities as expressed in feeling, thinking acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...
Crew, perhaps, offers the best illustration for these figures. Of the five men in College who have been awarded an emblem in this sport, everyone hails from Massachusetts. Track, on the other hand, is the most representative of the major sports, since two out of five, or 40 percent of its letter men, come from outside this state. In baseball, three out of nine "H" men, 33 percent, are not from Massachusetts. In football, the percentage is 30, and in hockey...
...Secretary of 1907 reports: "Owing to the state of war existing between this country and Germany, it has seemed best to the committee in charge of our Decennial Reunion to cancel the elaborate plans they had prepared for the affair and to confine the Class activities to the ceremonies on Commencement Day and an informal dinner to be held in Boston on the night before Commencement, which, it is hoped, all those in a position to do so will attend. The committee hope that the elaborate celebration planned for this June will simply be postponed until...