Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale committee doubtless feels a natural hesitancy in taking such a step, for fear of putting Yale in a false light with other institutions. But there is possible a point of view even higher than that, which would consider the case in the light of pure justice, justice not of the letter but of spirit. The University does not presume to offer advice to Yale; but, since the matter is not yet settled, it may be worth while to set forth the attitude of Harvard...
Another matter in the Report of especial undergraduate interest is that of the military movement. President Lowell emphasizes again the danger of overestimating the value of winter drills; and he points out their futility unless reinforced by actual tactical training in summer camps. He expresses the fear that the humdrum of mere drilling may disgust men with a work in reality interesting. The organizers of the Regiment have taken the position that, on the contrary, winter drill would increase interest in military matters and the attendance at summer camps. This is the view with which General Wood is supporting...
...said that this war has shown anything but the futility of attempting over-seas operations against modern coast defenses and naval protection? Given adequate coast-defenses--and these I for one do not oppose--from what nation need we, after the lessons of the present war, fear any successful attack from...
...discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing Americans fear and deplore in the Prussian scheme of organization...
Those who were living under the fear that Radcliffe wished peace-at-any-price are sweetly reassured in an article by "Radcliffe '17," called "What Radcliffe Thinks of Preparedness." Radcliffe wants peace, but--being modernly feminine--is concerned more with study preparation for war than with aiding the Red Cross or advancing the normal social work of women in peace. At least, they tend to refute a fear expressed in the New York Times yesterday that equal suffrage means war in which we will not have a ghost of a chance to succeed. Finally, there appears an article on "Celestial...