Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sports will merely be the handmaid of military or navy training. We therefore enter organized sport not with the old purpose of defeating our hereditary rivals, but merely with the purpose of turning out men in the best physical condition to undergo the strain of modern warfare." The Yale News...
...concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports of speeches, sermons, and lectures, reviews, etc. A young Harvard graduate is about to be appointed at the Committee's office in Paris to tabulate and classify these clippings. Opinions hostile to France, and opinions from papers in foreign languages would...
...Easter holidays. At that time a new ordnance course, with the support of the professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point, will be established, and will be followed by courses in army clerical work and in preparation for service in the Intelligence Bureau and Red Cross. The Yale News also announced recently that the registration in the naval courses at New Haven now totals more than...
...possible to say with much truth that the stimulus of war interest is the very factor that has depressed students' industry in the other subjects. And yet what was the real nature of the ardent request filed by the Yale News, if its editors could only have known it? It was in fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road...
...Very Idea" is doubtless on the Wellesley blacklist. At Herrick's and the hotel news-stands, it is just as doubtless on the preferred list. For it's just that sort of show...