Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fuss and complication about this one month of training than about any other camp in the history of the many training enterprises in which the University has been concerned. We may have had difficulties in enrolling for Plattsburg Training Camps last year and there were doubtless barriers in the path of those who wished to become officers at Devens and Upton, but these difficulties were mere jokes compared to the maze of complications which came in the wake of the present camp. First there were no application blanks, then the applications were closed and reopened in the space of four...
There are times when academic regulations must bow to matters of more vital importance. When the decision concerns a candidate for the Fourth O. T. C. it is the duty of university faculties to remove all possible restrictions and difficulties from his path. Failure to do so indicates not only a lack of interest in the future of the student, but a lack of fulfilment of patriotic duty...
...complete collapse of Russia and Rumania and the consequent opening of the East point to the advisability of German activity in this direction. Having once opened the path to conquest, it is only logical that full advantage be taken of the opportunity. It is scarcely conceivable that Germany will be guided by any scruples concerning the rights of the small Slavic peoples. On the contrary, the traditional imperial policy indicates the desirability and need of striking while the iron is hot, and devoting all energy to a complete success in the Eastern theatre of war. Moreover, from a military point...
...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. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...
...thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing and to turn the minds of the rulers and peoples who have conceived and are fostering it, toward the Right, or else to put them aside from the path of honest nations and men, to live sequestered in their ignominy. One of these two things is to be the judgment of the world against the Teutonic allies. --JOHN LUTHER LONG...