Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more diversified list of courses, and a greater opportunity for scientific research, the military specialist would find his natural place here instead of at West Point. A feeling of rivalry would be impossible because of the difference in character of the two educational plans. At Harvard the idea would be to turn out a soldier-expert, having the necessary knowledge of the fundamentals, but primarily an expert in his particular branch of the military game...
...preparatory school student is only human, and when he finds older men, men, it may be, who have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard...
...found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar
Boston is to have a professional and business men's military training camp this winter similar to that held at Plattsburg, N. Y., last summer. The plan has been arranged by Major Leonard Wood M.D. '84, who originated the idea of the Plattsburg camp...
...held in Boston November 19, on the eve of the annual intercollegiate cross-country race, to take action on the proposed changes. The event last year was much in the nature of an experiment, and the actual competition showed where there might be improvement in the future. The main idea is still adhered to, that of making the games anything but a championship affair, and the recommendations all tend to this fact...