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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Holbrook, in "Taps for the Old Army," proposes to ensure adequate officers for a new army, and at the same time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics...
...American University Union has proved, and will prove in the future, a great institution for the crystalizing of educational ideas of our country and France. There are also the Rhodes Scholarships which enable Americans to obtain the benefits of Oxford University, and recently the Harvard Club of New York has created a reciprocal privilege through the Choate Scholarship, that enables Englishmen to become educated in American universities...
Undergraduate publications are becoming the craze. For now the thrilling news comes to our ears that there is to be a new college daily. The Harvard Magazine has come out with its second platform; the first for increased salaries for instructors, and the second a "new daily to fight the Crime." Yet we are unable to ascertain whether the Harvard Magazine wishes to combat the CRIMSON, or whether it has merely been induced to espouse this new cause of the unknown proposers of the Harvard Daily. The complaints against the CRIMSON, undoubtedly supplied by the threatening journalists, have been enumerated...
...new daily proposes to "flight the Crime," we heartily wish they would start publication at once. That the College would not tolerate as its daily paper one which expresses such sentiments as those in the Harvard Magazine and others which the seething brains of embryo-politicians have brought forth, we are fully confident. The motive of self-advertisement is perhaps too apparent to make their threat bear weight. It will doubtless amuse Cambridge to see its youngest periodical attempt to attract attention to itself by sticking out its small tongue at the CRIMSON; and we can hardly believe that...
...have a fait that nature will always produce the scholar. Not only will the tradition of him be continued in families, but--and this is certain--new schools will be started to meet the deficiencies of our colleges, and minister to the deeper needs of the age, now that the colleges are shutting up shop...