Word: offering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...single purpose of shaping a winning team. The day is past when athletics could be viewed by the authorities as a necessary evil. Is it not likely that closer co-operation with the officers of the University would eliminate the narrowness of the "winning team" system and offer us the "more sport and better sport" which we have so anxiously desired...
...study be in infantry or artillery? As regards the first of these a compromise seems the wisest course. If military science were compulsory the Freshman year and elective after that, it would serve all its purposes. It would give every undergraduate some knowledge of the military game and would offer an opportunity to those who desired to become experts. A man with four years of military education would be invaluable to the Government in case of another war. There are at present and will be for the next few years, a fine body of retired officers in the University...
...impression that Harvard stood for nothing but snobbishness, affectation, and intolerance for everything not moulded in our accustomed forms. If we believe this we should not be here now. If we were not firmly convinced that our ideals pointed to a healthy democracy, that our plan of life offered an ever-increasing opportunity to each individual for self-realization we could hardly have built up the faith that carries us onward. We are therefore thankful that we had the facilities to offer the Radio School and the Ensign School, that other men might come here and form a fairer estimate...
...also decided to petition the Faculty to offer at least one course in practical aeronautics this next year. Most of the leading universities of Europe have already started similar courses and the question is being considered by many American universities...
Again, the demand for athletics will be more general than before the War. Many men will leave the service, knowing for the first time what real bodily health means. They will expect the University to help them maintain that health, to offer an opportunity for regular, well-planned exercise...