Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pacifists all those men who are opposed to compulsory military training, we are beginning a glorification of the word "pacifism," a word odious to most Americans during the war. In this category of 'pacifists" we would then be obliged to put such men as Colonel Logan and Major-General Sherburne--they are opposed to military training. We think those gentlemen would resent such implication. Certainly their friends would...
...long time since Greek was dropped as an entrance requirement, and since Latin was compulsory for Freshmen here. Harvard was the first college to adopt, the "Comprehensive Plan" for entrance, and has been a leader in the system of concentration, distribution and general examinations. The recent progressive steps taken by other universities have only in rare instances gone beyond what Harvard has already done. Perhaps the reason that Harvard has remained comparatively unchanged this year is that she was prepared to meet modern conditions before they...
Facilities for indoor exercise at the University expand today with the opening of the new Freshman Athletic Building. This marks the climax of the plans this fall of the Department of Physical Training at the University, which so far have resulted in the general reorganization of Freshman athletic facilities and the construction of 11 new squash courts in Randolph Gymnasium...
...have reached such a size that the management expects a hundred and fifty men out for the two teams this afternoon. Of this number about ninety are University candidates and sixty are Freshmen. As this is the first work-out of the year for 1923, they will be given general practice in position skating to get back into form...
...under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more good commanding and staff officers, notably General Summerall; it kept going, whether under fire or on the march, under conditions in which most units would have quit; and even in the matter of tactics, in the combination of artillery and infantry on the offensive, it was right in front of anything in either the American or French...