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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only college men in the Chemical Warfare Service except in the gas section. I refused enlisted men absolutely who had been in the Regular Army five years because he would have lacked the broadness of vision necessary in our branch of the service. The enlisted man would be better than the average sort of college graduates we had for about six months, but then the college man would pick up and pas him by the end of a year. I didn't expect the war to end in a year and it didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ABHOR WAR, BUT ABHOR SLAVERY WORSE"--FRIES | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

...uses men trained to defend and attack acutely, to overcome logic with logic. Today the needs of a tumultuous world are greater than ever. If the University is aware of the benefits which training in debate confers upon the individual and upon society, it is surprising that this branch of education has so long been denied official encouragement and active support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE MAT | 3/21/1925 | See Source »

...organization, which was begun in 1923 at a convention at Indianapolis, is to be patterned after similar movement which have grown in Germany, England, Switzerland and Japan to be powerful units. It is expected that Mr. Richards will attempt to stimulate interest among Harvard students in the New England branch of the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH PACIFIST TO TALK ABOUT WAR | 3/19/1925 | See Source »

...archaeology there is no branch of knowledge that may be acquired that will not be useful. In the Egyptian field, a knowledge of the ancient languages, Greek and Latin is extremely desirable and Egyptian indispensable. German French, Geology, Botany, Biology, Mathematics, History, Fine Arts, and even Music and Astronomy, I imagine, would be useful. It is not necessary that a man must have a knowledge of the higher branches of these subjects, but he must have enough to recognize the character of the questions which arise and to select the proper research men to be consulted in regard to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Found Tomb 4000 Years Old Only to Discover Undertaker Had Robbed It---Reisner Tells of Life of Archaeologist | 3/18/1925 | See Source »

...behind him with a good scholarship record, and second, a private income sufficient for a modest living. In the Egyptian field the training requires a great deal of time and a man's material progress is slow. A man has to make his own place by developing some special branch of research in which he excels every one else. The number of expeditions is small and the places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Found Tomb 4000 Years Old Only to Discover Undertaker Had Robbed It---Reisner Tells of Life of Archaeologist | 3/18/1925 | See Source »

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