Word: frighten
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...adventure and romance in them, have been emphasized in the present war, the field presents points of discouragement as well as attraction to the student who is undecided about his future vocation. Four undergraduate years, as many more in the professional school, and a subsequent period of hospital service, frighten away the man who requires quick material results. The field is left for those who seek in it life-long service, a keen and wide knowledge of human nature, and opportunity for gratifying scientific interest...
...would simply mean that men would have an opportunity to study and even concentrate in advanced military subjects, and that graduate students could make themselves experts in them. There would be no prescription, and no general exodus from other studies; and the courses could be made difficult enough to frighten away all but the serious-intentioned. The proposal is not to militarize the University any more than the existence of a chemical department has made the University a scientific laboratory...