Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit of future chairmen of boards of directors and prospective senators the course is adding some brief instruction in public speaking for the first time this year. The theory behind this move is sound even if the execution may be slightly disconcerting for the freshmen involved. Beyond this slight change the course remains the same unwieldy monster which causes so much lost sleep in the Dormitories along the Charles...
...brief. Dr. Rogers' statement that scholastic grades in the United States are the mark of the Dunce cap is exaggerated. Many difficulties arise in marking, but some sort of measurement of achievement is an absolute necessity, and the thing to do is not to throw out the baby with the water you wash...
...present system of athletic training at West Point is so different from that of most colleges that a brief description of it might be of interest to Harvard men. Twenty-five years ago no general participation in athletics, as distinguished from the course in calisthenics, gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wresting and riding required of all cadets, was necessary. Participation in the major sports as well as in tennis; golf, polo, etc., was optional and no instruction was provided for those who took up tennis or golf, which, incidentally, could be played only on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons...
...entitled "The Good Old Times" that recently appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean Gauss of Princeton describes the trials and tribulations, as well as more amusing incidents in both faculty and undergraduate life in the early days of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. West Point, in its comparatively brief existence, has also has several of these periods, referred to by the "Old Grads" as "the good old days...
...historical background of West Point is rich in colorful details, which of necessity, must be omitted from a brief record. We have but outlined the Revolutionary period, Civil War Days, and the stirring times during the World War. West Point, then, is even now a child, a child whose strength is built from the youth of the country, a child whose diet is mil--the milk of War. Has it not been said, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace":? West Point is, and always will be, the backbone of the nation...