Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects on a plane of equality, which, if tipped at all, is likely to move in the South's favor, by the grace of that refinement if culture for which Southerners of position have ever been famous. It is false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things of the mind and the spirit which...
...public opinion of that state on universal military training? The newspapers reflect with accuracy the opinions of their readers-they wouldn't do business long if they did not. A poll has been taken, from DesMoines, of the Iowa newspapers on this question, and it resulted like this: In favor of universal training, 32 papers Against universal training, 4 papers Neutral or noncommittal, 3 papers...
...favor military preparedness...
...regard to the much-agitated system of universal military training. Without having given an opportunity in its columns for discussion pro and con, the CRIMSON declares emphatically that "Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle by registering an overwhelming vote in favor of universal military training," and concludes by pointing to such action as a means "to strengthen Harvard's position as a patriotic institution...
Many of the professional pacifists who oppose universal military training do so as the result of sincere convictions and lofty ideals. Others, among whom are the editors of The New Republic, favor less universal plans of defence on grounds of expediency and effectiveness. Mistaken though the CRIMSON believes such views to be, their exponents are nevertheless deserving of due respect. But what shall be said of the slackers, and it is to be feared that they are not lacking even in our colleges, who oppose military training because of a deficient sense of obligation for their country's needs? These...