Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Grant Mitchell as John Paul Bart, the man of destiny, could not fail to succeed the moment he stepped upon the stage. Unlike "Bunker Bean" he has none of that ethereal something which makes him believe in his success. He is practical, alive, masculine from beginning...
...quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world. The trustees of Columbia, as of other colleges, fail to realize the spirit of criticism in which the undergraduate mind is constantly being trained. Their action is such a matter as that of loyalty or disloyalty to the Government is wholly unnecessary. No more patriotic body exists today than the members of the American colleges and universities. They...
...Student Council should immediately pass a resolution suspending all athletics at Harvard and cancelling all engagements for intercollegiate contests until the "imminence of war" is past. In the Faculty did this it would be considered unwarranted oppression, and would fail of its intended moral effect. If we do it ourselves it will add, directly and indirectly, more men to the training unit than any other possible action, and its example will be felt throughout the country. It is easy enough to call others to make sacrifiees for their duty--it is simpler, but rarer, to make the sacrifices oneself...
...constant danger of war. This is no time for men to grumble at the increased hours of drill, because any morning may find us at war. If men await further developments before they enroll in the unit, they will in reality be just as disgraceful slackers as those who fail to volunteer in time of need. The country will want trained officers if war comes more than any number of eager raw recruits. Harvard men must forget about the sacrifice entailed during the next few months, and realize that the greater amount of serious, concentrated drill and study accomplished...
...safety of the United States. It is the first duty of every American to sustain the President in his action. If war should come it will be the duty of every man, young or old--a duty in which I know the men of Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come we must never for a moment forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison...