Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Militarism is not synonymous with conscription. The first is a poisonous state of mind more or less existent in all nations. The second is, of all political measures, the one best calculated to give that state of mind power and scope. I bow to the distinction...
...course General Pershing advocates a smaller standing army and a less militaristic training, and any other concession that will make way for the vital principle of conscription. What does Mr. Chandler thing an intelligent militarist would do in the same position: sacrifice the chance of conscription to the chance of a larger standing army? Hardly...
...hope that soon we will be able to establish a regular system whereby we can exchange both professors and students with the United States, which, I believe, would be of great benefit to both countries. Such an exchange would be less difficult than it seems because most of the Bohemian professors already speak English fluently...
Emphasis on a field of study (as opposed to a course) tends to an individual system of education, with less assigned work and more voluntary work. Students at Harvard have long felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system of instruction. Whether the cause is a too definite prescription of work to be done, or lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this...
...Cross drive for members is progressing slowly. Only an incomplete canvass of the University has been made as yet, and full returns of the team captains had not been made up to a late hour last night; the two teams that did report turned in a total of less than $200. The drive will continue until Friday of next week, omitting Tuesday, a holiday, and by that time every dormitory in the University will be thoroughly covered...