Word: findings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Appleton Chapel. The removal to the Faculty Room of University Hall was a wise action from the standpoint of saving coal, but it did not prove successful as far as attendance is concerned. This apathy of undergraduates may have resulted from force of habit-our young men could never find their way to University Hall-or from a conviction that the Faculty Room did not have the fitting appointments. An average of forty or fifty a day is indicative, if discouraging...
Retreating from their advanced positions against the Hinderburg line the allied armies are now standing at bay on the very ground upon which they resisted the invaders for twenty months preceding the Somme drive. The Germans have reconquered a battle-scarred desert at frightful cost only to find themselves still face to face with unbeaten armies which have been reinforced during the week with reserves drawn from all parts of France and the British Isles...
...only excuse that the authorities have for instituting organized sport at these two universities again is that we find it necessary for the morale and good health of the college that the students should be urged to undertake athletic sports, and these sports will merely be the handmaid of military or navy training. We therefore enter organized sport not with the old purpose of defeating our hereditary rivals, but merely with the purpose of turning out men in the best physical condition to undergo the strain of modern warfare." The Yale News...
...training, which prevails in Europe as well as in America. This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could do anything appreciable to remedy: because the remedy must be first applied at the very beginning of the child's formal education, that...
...blind loyalty, as because the accusations are patently unfounded. If, for instance, Harvard were in any least iota "literally robbing her students" (!!!), there would be some evidence thereof. And it is well known that any member of the University, from the oldest professor to the youngest Freshman would find the present College Administration open-minded and eager to consider his complaint, and energetic to remedy the evil. If my own experience is significant, and it can hardly be other, our present administrative officers are perhaps without exception beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then...