Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Briggs offers us a suggestion to solve our perplexities by creating a Department of Athletics. Novel as the idea appears to many, it is, in reality, a very old one, revived in a certain measure, as is pointed out, by some of the Western colleges but tracing its origin to Grecian times, when gymnastics and the liberal arts had an equal part in a young man's training...
...present time, Mr. Marburg is one of the most enthusiastic advocates of the League of Nations to Enforce Peace. The idea of such a league was first formulated in this country at a dinner given by him, and attended by such men as President Lowell, and Ex-President Taft. He is also Foreign Secretary of the League of Nations Society in this country, and as such he aims to co-operate with similar organizations in other countries. His speech tonight will be on the subject of a League of Nations...
...short time these guests of ours have been with us we have not become closely acquainted with them, and they, through the natural restrictions of the military life, have been unable to form a very complete idea of what Harvard is and what the name stands for. At the same time we hope that their experience here has been broad enough to correct the mistaken ideas many of them brought with them. Some, coming from a distance, had been fortified in the impression that Harvard stood for nothing but snobbishness, affectation, and intolerance for everything not moulded in our accustomed...
...Warburg is one of the chief exponents of the League to Enforce Peace. It was at a dinner given by him and attended by President Lowell, William H. Taft, and others, that the idea of such a league was actually started in this country. He will speak on some subject connected with the League of Nations...
...have so importantly assisted us in the material maintenance of this operation, it appears to me that you are at least entitled to some idea of what we believe to be its purpose...