Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wouldn't a camp established on much broader lines, and conceivably of much larger efficiency, be still more popular and valuable? In asking this question there is neither attempt nor desire to minimize the great service which Harvard has rendered the nation. The men it educated at the Fresh Pond trenches and at Barre made an excellent showing at the subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers. Artillery, signal corps and engineer officers are just as urgently needed...
...second period, the Yale men showed more traditional fighting spirit and, playing a careful defensive game, kept the Freshmen from adding to their lead. Fresh players were sent in to fill positions on both teams, but the changes did not alter the outcome of the game...
These faults can be changed, and they can be changed more easily by the undergraduate than through the professor. . . . . We must take a fresh hold, make a new start. We must give up snap courses, stop vaguely dreaming through lecture hours. We must aim at some definite goal--and reach it. We must work for a purpose. Cornell...
...scholarship in English has been chosen as the most appropriate honor. This is fitting indeed, for not only will Meeker's memory be preserved, but it will be preserved ever fresh. So long as instruction in English is part of the University's curriculum, students will be inspired by the example of a former undergraduate. At the same time, this scholarship is to be a reward for excellence. As an encouragement for students to attain perfection, or, at least, to do their utmost, the memorial will be of value to humanity. That the memory of a life spent in seeking...
...University. On the one hand he has shown what is the new disadvantage that must fall on a college which seeks to exert an actual censorship of the opinions publicly expressed by its professors. Assuming authority to delete what it considers undesirable material, the college becomes incidentally and with fresh weight responsible for the material which it allows to remain. In this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim, to insist that the utterances of its many professors are in their essence expressions of personal and not of official opinion. The justice of this position...