Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where is the hardship in the compulsory education system as Americans know it and submit to it? Upon that system as it is now applied rests the country's safety from internal foes. The time has come to extend it in such a manner that it will protect the nation from external attack. Shall we Americans be less alert in protecting our institutions from foreign enemies than we are in guarding those institutions from ourselves...
...most striking feature of the military mass meeting held in the Union last night was the serious and sober manner in which the eleven hundred undergraduates who crowded the Living Room received the sound advice of Dean Yeomans and President Lowell. In their two strong speeches the reasons for the University's action in regard to the R. O. T. C. in the present crisis was explained and the men were urged to vindicate that action by steady work through the special examination period as well as by cool and deliberate service after...
...That it is the sense of the Board of Overseers that the University should take every possible means to turn out officers trained in the best possible manner for active service at the earliest possible date...
...always a refreshing thing to hear a young critic express his criticism in a positive manner. There is entirely too much of the half-hearted, uncertain sort of judgment that says: "It seems to me," "I think," et cetera. Better far to show your colors and come boldly out with "It is," because everyone understands criticism as an expression of little more than personal opinion. The authority of it and the respect we give to it rests on the individual. Mr. Wright, then, who indeed does not hesitate to state his views with perfect assurance in his criticism of "Major...
...enrolments for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of students now registered in the University will be made after the April recess. Full particulars as to the manner of enrolment will be announced later...