Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occurs to us that we might appreciate it more than we do. We might see in it more of an opportunity,--a chance for every man in the University to give and receive ideas on every subject on earth. This is a highly important part of college education, Undoubtedly such a chance was borne in mind by the founders of the Advocate, for those were the days when men got together and exchanged ideas, founded clubs, and ran papers. It is fortunate that some of the organizations founded then still survive else how should we have any at all? However...
...addition to the suitability of artillery to the college man it is especially adapted to the peculiar problem of military training at the colleges themselves. The curriculum of the artillery runs more nearly parallel to the academic program than does that of infantry or any other arm. There is enough technical and theoretical knowledge to be learned to keep several courses going throughout the year. With sufficient classroom work to be undertaken, winter drills under adverse conditions would not be necessary in order to keep the military system intact. This is perhaps the most important factor in adapting artillery...
...that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...
Acquaintance is one of the chief means of getting the most good out of college life and there is no excuse for any man being without it. With all the varieties of opportunities and all the different types of men here in the University, anyone who exerts himself in the least can find his place among his kind...
Harvard is a small world in itself. The only way any man can make progress in any world is by going after it, and going after it early...