Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...means, too, that he must have some part in the spiritual commonwealth for which all else is little but a scaffolding. This does not mean that a knowledge of Latin declensions is a natural right. But it does mean that each human being should have some means of expression, some way of inviting his soul. Many different arts and crafts and sports may furnish these means. Any system of education which leaves them out is narrow and pedantic. Such a system must fail just as the so-called classical education has failed...
...certain stiffness and restraint in the Harvard manner invariably makes an unfavorable impression on a man accustomed to the breeziness of the free-and-easy West, but it can hardly be taken to mean that there is less of real democracy at Cambridge than in the college towns on the Coast. Harvard democracy is accustomed to express itself in a less demonstrative fashion, that is all, and although it lies deeper beneath the surface, its presence cannot be denied...
This explains why Harvard and the other colleges are making such elaborate preparations for an emergency which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...
...students in the University are concerned, he would not be disposed to recommend for commission any men not enrolled in the R. O. T. C. until all those who are at present members of the corps and are eligible for commissions have been recommended. This will mean, he explained, that the present members of the course will be considered before other students and thus will either be promoted to higher commissions later or receive higher commissions at once, than other students...
These figures mean that four out of five stood in a bad posture and that the college slump, instead of being bad, is very much of a reality...