Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advice and counsel to a chief officer in general direction; (4) the enlargement of the appointments office staff and the provision of additional funds, if necessary by some fee system, so that the large volume of business can be adequately handled at the University; and (5) designation of a certain number of professors as advisors to students concerning the possible careers with which they are familiar...
...prints an article by one of the principal backers of the summer camp idea, Colonel Roosevelt. "These camps," he says, "are the entering wedge for a system of universal and obligatory military training for universal and obligatory military service." The word "obligatory" always has and probably always will irritate certain kinds of American citizens, the flag-waving, "land-of-the-free" singing kind. To them it savors of imperialism, largely because the most imperialistic of all nations has obligatory military training...
...before Congress has been offered by Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, adding $25,000 to the Forest Service appropriation for investigations in Central and South America, and if this amendment should be adopted it is entirely possible that the Yale School and the Forest Service would arrange for a certain amount of co-operation in carrying out the research...
...editorial raises an important point about the responsibility of college graduates for the encouragement of a certain type of semi-professionalism in college athletics. Fortunately, the reports of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee lead us to believe that in recent years public opinion has improved in this respect...
...writer of a story that deals with boys, an elderly type of mind. A delicate problem of conflicting views of honor and duty is set forth in Mr. Carpenter's "The Greater Fear." The hero is forced by his fiancee to decide between apparent cowardice and, the author implies, certain brutality. Might there not have been a third way out, the reader is tempted to ask? Mr. Moyse discusses "the Episode Play" with greater sympathy than it usually finds at the hands of the critics; he insists that it is a genre distinct both from the ordinary drama and from...