Word: column
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Politics, as Mr. Frothingham points out in another column, is coming more and more to be looked upon as a fit business for college men. This is due to two factors. The economics and political science faculties of our universities have for years been graduating men with idealistic plans for improving social conditions. And the example of successful scholar-politicians, such as Lodge, Root, and Wilson has inspired other educated men to look to public life for careers...
...members of the class of 1916 need any admonition against indifference or thoughtlessness in today's important elections, they will do well to refer to the editorial column of the CRIMSON a year ago. The following quotation is from an editorial which appeared on the day before the 1915 Senior elections...
...Fuller points out a new, or at least generally little thought of, aspect of military discipline in his article in another column, in that it teaches us that it is not only our duty but our privilege to show loyalty to our nation. His statement concerning President Lowell's position in the matter, however, merits some explanation...
...another column is printed an article by Dr. Sargent emphasizing the fact that physical fitness is of far greater importance in the movement toward preparedness than is military drill. Granted; but Dr. Sargent goes on to minimize the value of a university battalion on the ground that students' time might better be employed either on the athletic field or in the State Militia. What about those men who do not participate in athletics and who are not members of the militia, yet who might be induced to join such an organization as is proposed for the University...
...question of national defense, all propositions which ultimately aim at peace are apt to be classed together as useless pacificism, without consideration of their individual merits. The League to Enforce Peace, whose aim and purpose are set forth by Professor Wilson, in an article which appears in another column, is a plan worked out by practical men to reduce the chances and causes of war to a minimum...