Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which it may now justly claim, to insist that the utterances of its many professors are in their essence expressions of personal and not of official opinion. The justice of this position, as it obtains in colleges which have not sought to establish a censorship, is one of the chief points emphasized by President Meiklejohn of Amherst in his recent paper on "Freedom in the College...
...universities is lodged and with it a splendid prophecy that the war will free us from this thralldom. Starting back in the fifties when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only been applied to science, where it is natural, though mistaken, but it has gone into...
...facts of the case are very simple. General Crozier, Chief of Ordinance, has admitted that although the Browning gun was adopted last May as the official light machine gun for our armies, not a single one of these weapons has as yet been turned out; moreover, it will be spring before the Ordnance Department will have them ready. So it is with all other necessary armaments. The French and English, anxiously awaiting our artillery, have to give up their own in order to equip our expeditionary force, and will have to continue to do so for many months...
What's the use of giving the Lampoon credit for what it contains in this Christmas number? A summary of the table of contents would be much more informative than useful, and the Lampoon's chief claim to credit this time is for what it has left...
...disaster are not known, nor is the precise cause of it. We do not know whether or not the hand of an enemy had anything to do with it. But it is evident that the loss is terrific; that thousands must suffer as well as mourn; and that the chief sally-port of the new world's war against the Central Empires of the old world has been virtually destroyed. And whether or not they had any hand in this calamity, how fiercely our enemies will rejoice at the sorrow and destruction that have befallen...