Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...America," he said, "is a land where individualism takes precedence. While the benefits of this in regard to other questions may be good or bad, there can be no doubt as to its effect on preparedness. We need collective thinking and collective action. So long as we are individual, we will be hopelessly unprepared...
...consumes, but he is certainly talking at cross-purposes with such agitators as Mr. Roosevelt when he can admit no alternatives between the "noble and exalted spirit of China," and what Mr. Mitchell in an editorial calls "the neurotic visions of a discredited Bernhardi." Historians might be inclined to doubt, also, if reason were the sole efficient cause by which the present harmonious arrangements were achieved "in the spheres of trade, religious beliefs and domestic politics...
...anything, no matter how apparently insignificant, toward inducing only the men here at college to pay some attention to the really worth while thought that present conditions are occasioning, it would think the time--and the space--well spent. Of course, behind all exhortation and chatter lurks the doubt if young men--and especially young men in college--are really interested in what the world is doing...
...Mitchell's doubt, hampered by the defects of an editor's point of view, weighed down with the responsibilities of circulation and making up his issues, is probably justified. He concludes by asking, "To put things plainly: don't we like a boxing match better than Lowes-Dickinson?" This question is as bad as the uneasy choice which Mr. McCombs offered us between militarism and pacifism. Some of us like good boxing matches and find it not inconsistent with a fondness for stimulating lectures or reading. Compared with most professional boxing-matches, the meet at the Union a short time...
...Freshman hockey team wound up a very successful season on Saturday by decisively defeating the Yale 1919 seven, 6 to 1, in the New Haven arena. The final outcome of the contest was in doubt only once, at the beginning of the second period when the Yale team started a spirited rally and bombarded the Freshman goal again and again, although only successful in getting a single goal into the cage...