Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advisability of resuming intercollegiate games in place of the present policy of meeting only cantonment and school teams. The question of intercollegiate games has not, until recently, received the support of the authorities of Yale, Princeton and the University, but in view of the need of a more general participation in athletics by undergraduates than resulted under the system in force throughout the first half of the college year, they have changed their attitude. The general opinion at the other two universities is now in favor of a renewal of the old type of competition on a less pretentious scale...
...General Order...
...peace proposals which have come from the Teutonic allies had come from nations alive to their international obligations, jealous of their national integrity, scrupulous as to their general honor, the world might be cheered by the hope that, presently, when the scales had fallen from deluded but honest eyes, we might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton...
Therefore, all we ask of the Athletic Committee is the restoration of the indispensable--the factor bringing success in our spring athletics. We do not petition for a blind return to the old evils. Let highly-paid coaches, extensive advertising, and the general commercialization of amateur athletics lie buried as they now are by the present war. A little longer and they may be stifled for good and all. A return to intercollegiate games does not mean a return to evils. A return to Intercollegiates does mean athletic attainment. It is for this...
...only way to get peace is to win the war," declared James M. Beck, former assistant attorney-general under Roosevelt, before an audience of 2,500 college men on Saturday night in the Boston Opera House. "Unless the Prussian is beaten and knows that he is beaten, all the dead will have died in vain, for even if a treaty or peace could be secured at this time that would be wholly favorable to the Allies, but which left the Hohenzollern on his throne, as soon as Germany had recuperated its strength, as Prussia did under Frederick the Great...