Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unfortunate that Adjutant-General Pearson should seize the present moment for what sounds like ill-advised and unsound criticism of the splendid work for military preparedness now under way at Harvard. His disavowal of intent to find fault will scarcely remedy the favorable opinion that many persons will be inclined to form. In belittling the intensified training of officers at Harvard, Adjutant-General Pearson is taking a position directly opposed to that of the leading military authorities of the United States. The Harvard course has the approval and support of the War Department. The program of training as mapped...
...army is just like a football team; it will be good or bad according as the team knows signals and automatically carries those signals out when the occasion presents itself. The Provisional Battalion will make it easier for men to know the signals and respond to them, in the event of a training camp here; and in any event, it will be beneficial in making Princeton men better prepared...
Next logical development of the exchange professorship idea in our colleges should be the establishment of an exchange between institutions of the North and the South. Harvard has already its exchanges with Europe and with a group of four Western colleges. It is time that we should give like recognition to a great section of our country which has several institutions that are the peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects...
...more deeply versed in human psychology than the college man of twice his years specializing in abstruse philosophy. He knows that all men are not selfish, as your embryo pessimist would believe, and that all men are not prosperous and well-fed, as the young college optimist would like to hope...
...Blue Paradise" ought to be a great hit. But it is not, simply because no finishing or smoothing or polishing has been done. Out with the tools, Mr. Producer, for if Broadway stamped this thing with approval, there must be some potential virtue in it, and Boston does like to agree with its Manhattan friend, even though it never does...