Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics is indispensable; and it is be hoped that college men will give their best thought to them...
...amazing. The "specialists" for this army--machine gunners, engineers, and so forth--are to be formed from a nucleus of regulars in case of emergency. Are the lessons of the recent war forgotten? The Regular Army took five months to "expand" and to whip recruits into shape. But human nature is ever optimistic. Next time we hope we will do better...
...doubt, however, that the prestige of the daily press has suffered everywhere because of the war. In my judgment, enough lying has been done by the American press about the war to last for a hundred years, and this is not the normal misrepresentation due to human fallibility and the exigencies of news-gathering. Of course, the governments must bear the largest share of the blame for this newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into deliberate suppression or deliberate...
...inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from its very nature is limited to facts; the general examination need not be. It is to be hoped that the various chairmen of departments will see the value...
There is a general feeling manifest in every field of human endeavor at the present time: a belief that the great struggle of the last five years has made new methods of life necessary, that there must be closer co-operation between capital and labor. And at the root of most of our social problems lies that of education. It has been customary -- too customary -- to dismiss any difficult problem with the statement: "If we had better education this would take care of itself." But, although these words have become very trite, it is none the less true that reforms...