Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Special Aid Society purposes to give the women of this country an opportunity to organize in case of war or any other disaster. The idea is to have all women declare beforehand just what services they would be able to render in time of need, and thus great potential force is secured. These societies would be organized throughout the United States, and a much greater efficacy would be had for women to do their part during national calamities...
...With this fact in view, military camps were organized to train intelligent men as officers. Parallel with this movement, there is now growing up the feeling of a need for some arrangement to provide trained men for emergency officers in the navy. Surely there is no fallacy in this idea, for the peculiar situation of the United States, between two oceans, emphasizes the importance of an efficient navy. The proposed cruise of four weeks should serve well the triple function which is announced...
...those who intend to devote the whole or part of their life to music, I should answer that it was in learning to look upon their art from the viewpoint of the amateur. And in this connection "amateur" signifies all that is best and most healthy in the unprofessional idea of things. About us on all sides are evidences of a professionalism made all too necessary in a country where commercial development has not yet left much room for deliberate, peaceful thought, nor the pursuance of artistic ideals. The market value of toil and ambition, of genius, of capacity...
This is only the second year of Freshman Interdormitory Hockey, and it has thus far proved a great success. It was President Lowell's idea to interest the Freshmen in some sort of within-the-class athletics, and this year a considerably larger number of men reported for interdormitory hockey than last year...
Professor G. P. Baker '87, Graduate Adviser of the club, approves of the idea, and it is expected that this step will be merely a preliminary to the scheme of affording those candidates who fail to make the club on the acting and producing ends, and opportunity to demonstrate their ability by giving private performances for the benefit of club members only. Temporary double casts have already been partially selected and the active work of rehearsing began yesterday...