Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally come between the last year of preparatory school and the first year of college...
...trained men. If we attribute our advances to the institutions under which we live, then we must be ready to uphold those institutions for what the advances are worth. Preparedness to defend with arms is the natural complement to ability to promote with judgment and foresight, and the man who develops the one at the expense of the other, the man who builds up a beautiful country without providing for its security, evidences a surprising lack of that judgment and foresight he aimed to cultivate...
Aside from this intellectual value of supplying a centre for men interested in the theatre, such a memorial would be used by every man in College during his course at some time. Many of the smaller clubs would be furnished the place in which to give entertainments, which they can have in no other way. Class movies and smokers, concerts, and in short every form of undergraduate entertainment would centre about a University Theatre...
...value of freedom as the great educator of man has always been one of President Eliot's beliefs. For this reason, he introduced the free elective system to allow every student to choose the subjects for which he felt a natural inclination. He realized that no work could be done happily and well which did not really interest the worker...
...ending is grossly untrue. It is doubtful if any man ever won his wife by weeping over her future, and enlarging on his hope that she would find a good husband; yet George Arliss does it and the audience looks on with rapt attention apparently oblivious of the inconsistency...