Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic rules which are responsible for this situation are ordinarily just and necessary, but if they are enforced against these returned soldiers who patriotically left College to enter the service of their country a palpable injustice will be done them. There is little doubt but that these men will soon be reinstated with their original classes, so that loss of classification is only temporary. Therefore, in view of the fact that the cause of their leaving College was clearly irreproachable, the rules in this instance might well be relaxed in order that they may become eligible candidates for University teams...
...relation between the intellectual and cultural sides of these peoples at a time when their political relations could not be brought into harmony. That it has had much effect in showing the real unity of spirit between New England and Old England, seems to me to be beyond doubt. It has spread the knowledge of Harvard as a seat of learning and also as a source of action. I have a strong feeling that, whereas in the past Harvard has gotten much inspiration from her older sisters at Oxford and Cambridge, in the future, and in the near nature, under...
...reasonably doubt whether the English universities have in the last generation importantly assisted British democracy, while one cannot, I think, doubt that Harvard has importantly assisted in the development of American democracy throughout its existence...
...decision of the University to suspend until next September the resumption of military and naval training for the undergraduate is one that will, without doubt, be applauded equally by student body and faculty. It is true that throughout the country many colleges and universities are planning to resume their old R. O. T. C. units at once, and at a time when Bolsheviks and Reds and Spartacides are destroying enormous nations this course may to some appear the wisest. But is it not a bit of misplaced enthusiasm to thrust a Krag into the hands of a lieutenant...
...tell you the commonest events of my life. I doubt whether that will be possible, for I have chosen a 75 attacking battery, but I shall keep a moment-to-moment journals for you and for others to whom I am not afraid to reveal myself. If I get through safely we'll laugh over it--and if I pass out, it will be sent...