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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Inspiration cannot be where sincerity is not," says an editorial writer in the current number of the Advocate. "Neither inspiration nor sincerity is in much of our undergraduate poetry. There are too many sonorous nothings, too many technical devices, too many detriments. It were better to express true emotion imperfectly than to express a feigned emotion perfectly...
...rifle will be removed from the drill halls without the express permission of the Commandant or Assistant Commandant. C. CORDIER, Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
...inches of your space to express my humble belief that this country at this time does not want war? I do not think there is anything in the present situation to justify our rushing hot-headedly to arms? If we had declared war on Germany at the time the Lusitania was sunk, we might have claimed at least a man's-size pretext. From the standpoint of a neutral American, I cannot see that Germany's conduct during the entire war differs from that of England, except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans...
...more unfortunate that Harvard should be so suddenly called upon to express officially its opinion on so important a matter as universal military service. Although the question has been in the air for several months, it has been brought home to very few students. Without a discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, as in the present case, the vote represents little more than the "snap judgment" of the University. Under the circumstances, if the CRIMSON wished to comply with the Army League's request for an official canvass of Harvard sentiment, to be presented before the Senate Committee, there...
...large increase for the year 1906 is explained by the receipt of the income from the Teachers' Endowment Fund the principal of which now amounts to over $2,000,000. This fund was raised in 1905 from friends of the University for the express purpose of increasing the salaries in the College. The application of this income resulted in an increase of about 13 per cent to all teachers in the College. Since that time there has been very little advance, practically the same scale of salaries being now in force...