Word: objections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe, however, that those working for international peace and who object to the plan for introducing college men in the army and navy, do not understand the aims and intentions of the government. The desirability of international peace we readily admit, but in the present stage of civilization it is a remote possibility. The probability of internal strife alone makes imperative the maintenance of a large army and navy. The need of men of education and superior intelligence in the rank and file of the army and navy we have explained and emphasized before. But the most important feature...
...special point in connection with the annual concert of the Harvard Musical Club to be given Wednesday evening. From remarks which come frequently to my ears, it is evident that the undergraduates, the alumni' and certainly the public have a very confused idea of what the prime object is of the department of Music, and how the various musical activities of the University are correlated. The writer is often asked how his pupils on the pianoforte, violin or organ are progressing. Now the University gives no instruction whatsoever on the executive side of music, confining itself strictly to the theory...
Tomorrow evening the Forum is to discuss the uses of the Harvard Union. It is fortunate that this subject should have been chosen at a time when the Union has been the object of comment and criticism which in the main has been merely unsupported individual opinion. The fact, however, of this criticism proves strikingly what has long been realized--that, as the Harvard Union is a great opportunity for Harvard students, so too, is it a great problem. The Union stands today as the greatest material tribute to college democracy in the country and it is the problem which...
...meeting of the University track squad, open to all men eligible for the University team, will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union on Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The object of the meeting is to discuss plans for the winter indoor season, and it is hoped that all those intereted will find it possible to be present...
...Withington '09 will have a general supervision over the work, conducting some of it personally. The rest will be under the direction of the various instructors at the Gymnasium. The class is intended primarily for beginners and those who have had but little training in athetics, its object being to promote all around physical development, rather than to prepare for any particular sport...