Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Upon entering college, the matter of further military training to fit men to be officers must be decided by the college authorities. I favor military courses such as the Field Artillery Unit, which would count towards a degree, but would not take so much time that other courses would be neglected. After a year of military training, every young man would know what branch of the service he wished to enter. There should be several kinds of training given at each college to allow considerable choice. However, the completion of some one of the military courses should be compulsory...
Governor Bamberger of Utah has proposed in a letter to the New York Times that foreign language newspapers in America be gradually required to print their reading matter in English. This, Mr. Bamberger suggests as part of an extensive program of education in Americanization to be taken up in the future...
...There is no reason why there should not be minor leagues in collegiate institutions just as there are elsewhere. As a matter of fact, even under present football rules, small institutions are not reasonable competitors for large institutions. I am such a thorough believer in intercollegiate competition that I find no difficulty in considering an Eastern league and a Western league of natural competitors, and I would leave opportunity for the winners to play at the end of the season on some neutral college ground or municipal stadium which would be conveniently accessible to both...
...opponents on the same platform all the more pertinent. Both members of old Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard College and the Law School, well versed in questions of government and international relations, they have every reason for thinking in common. That two such men should differ on a matter of such transcending national consequence doubles the importance of their meeting tonight. It will be a battle royal...
...unavoidable segregation of some 150 Freshmen in the Yard this year the class of 1922 has not yet been thoroughly welded into a single whole. Now the Yard Freshmen are to be given an opportunity to board with their fellows in Gore and Standish Halls. No mere matter of physical distance should deter them from taking advantage of this proferred chance to get better acquainted with their class; the benefits far outweigh any possible disadvantages. Let us not see 1922 go through college with a "Yard clique" distinct from the rest of the class...