Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Sherburne, in an article printed elsewhere in this issue, states a fear that men of certain educational qualifications are likely to believe themselves born with the right to command, regardless of their individual ability as leaders; whereas in reality there are countless men of less fortunate schooling who, on account of personal fitness, are far more suitable for commissions. That he is right in his assertion that "a college man, because he is a college man, is not thereby given a divine right to become an officer," is undeniable. Naturally all men of any certain type of education...
...suggest that the members of a losing football team or baseball team should not be awarded their letters? Is his criterion of merit not sincere effort, but accidental result? Would he give recognition only to those who are favored by chance, and stamp out of existence those who are less fortunate? His meaningless allusion to Prussianism might easily be made a boomerang...
...spite of grave doubts as to which team did the most to refute Prohibition, we suggest that, instead of distinguishing between the principal speakers and the alternates, the gold medals be pinned upon the breasts of those who opposed the 18th Amendment and the silver decorations upon their less worthy colleagues...
With its 80,000 words, presented in less than six months from the armistice the peace treaty is the longest and will probably be concluded in the shortest time of any comparable treaty in modern times. Treaties with which comparison is suggested are those of Westphalia, signed in 1648 after seven years deliberation, those of Utrecht signed in 1713, eighteen months after the preliminaries, and that of Vienna signed June 9, 1815, fourteen months after the first capitulation of Napoleon but while the opposing forces were gathering for the final struggle at Waterloo...
...training table would not only give the team regular and substantial meals, but it would give them an opportunity to "talk up" their races. In this way the less experienced members could gain valuable information as well as team spirit...