Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever hope to attain in the United States. Through whatever spectacles one views English history from the thirteenth century onward, he cannot help but perceive the influence of the universities on the life of the country. I need not elaborate the point. It is sufficient to say that, like the best of everything else in English life, the universities have been saved for 'the best...
...young man is to make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures...
...CRIMSON Prints two communications this morning on military training at Harvard--one for it, and one against it. Like prohibition, probation, protection or any other live topic, this question has given rise to two rival camps, ready to hurl epistolary missiles at each other, the CRIMSON serving as a convenient Belgium for their battles. Very little comes of such paper controversies. They are interesting as expressions of opinion, however...
...compulsory military education could be very successful while there are so many men in the University strongly opposed to it in practice and principle. Still the same may be said of the orals, which are not notable for their popularity but which cannot be escaped even by those who like them lest. However, it would be a task not lightly to be undertaken to round up a thousand or more rebellious young men and compel them to mark time and shoulder arms a couple of times a week...
There are men in the University who like to wear khaki, pitch tents and shoot at targets, and who would be glad to go in for military training. But such men have an outlet for their military ardor in several local militia regiments...