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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advised Yale men to join the R. O. T. C. here at once in order to get the full benefit of the camp. "While their work will not be greatly hindered by waiting until Commencement," he said, "yet the loss of valuable preliminary instruction will make the course more difficult for Yale men entering late...
...difficult when an individualistic and independent college is suddenly changed into a military camp to change at the same time the characteristics of its individualistic and independent students. Harvard men are notably unapt to bow without reason to constituted authority; in that differing not vastly from other college men, or from non-college men of the younger successful class, for that matter...
...fact has recently been impressed upon us that the Allies need 600,000,000 bushels of grain. Last year America only reaped 639,000,000. It is difficult for us to realize how strenuous the food situation abroad is until we consider that 300,000,000 must be fed, and that 40,000,000 have been taken out of productive forms of work. Each bushel produced here now means a great deal to the progress abroad and makes the disposal we are to make of the summer seem very vital. We are not planning a summer lark, but the most...
...difficult to see how the author, brought up in the critical and liberal atmosphere of Harvard, could have chosen, through such apparent implications, to indict the Chinese as a people in this insolent and irresponsible manner. That the army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given...
...college man has been noted since the wastrel days of the Goliards as a bacchant of the first degree. How much truth and how much poetical tradition there is in this reputation it is rather difficult to say. It is sufficiently true that each succeeding generation during its four short years of life endeavors through the medium of a few picked individuals to maintain the glory of the vine...