Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which...
...each of men taking History 1, Philosophy, Classics and Sciences. It may still be too early to estimate accurately the advantages of the undertaking but its possibilities are obvious. What it may lead to, we do not know. Clearly it tends to make of English A something less like a 'course' than it used to be, and more like a 'bureau for the encouragement of English...
...does not matter whether or not our sympathies are with Germany. We should remember that the Iron Cross is being given to men (young college students like ourselves) who, believing sincerely in the ideals of their country and the justice of their country's cause, are willing to sacrifice their lives...
...difficulty be obviated by the provision for further voluntary nomination by the Freshmen themselves. One candidate, nominated by such means, is in the field; it speaks well for him. But there is too much indifference, too much lack of initiative in the class for the possibility of anything like a representative series of voluntary nominations by any except over-enthusiastic hero worshipers...
...help keep as many men in the field as possible; we free the soldiers from worrying about their loved ones; and we look after all those in need. If this were not the case, the present war would be a different story. It would not seem so much like a prize fight (although I fail to see any prize in it), wherein the United States was the second, patching up the blows of both participants and preparing them for the next round, and wherein the nations were the fighters. It would be a story of all sorts of miseries, cruelties...