Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe that the men who will go are doing it from any fondness for jingoism or militarism, or that they will prove a menace to the anti-militaristic principles of this country. I think that they realize what the CRIMSON so evidently does not realize,--the fact that our country is pitifully unprepared to face an actual crisis of any sort, demanding a display of armed force. It is not, unfortunately, a question of mere physical bravery, or even of patriotism in actual warfare, but a question of officers who know their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet...
...sensible man will today attempt to prove that war in the future is inevitable. On the contrary, he should feel called upon to analyze the causes which lead to war and then play as active a part as possible for their prevention in the future. Wars arise today either because one nation holds to the fallacious notion that it can secure some positive gain by defeating some other power, or else because it believes such an opinion is held towards...
...Summer Military Camps for college students have been endorsed by some of the sincerest and most prominent men in the country. In adopting a policy of active opposition to the camps, the CRIMSON does so with the conviction that, in the broadest view of the question, such opposition will prove in the future to have the soundest foundations. The CRIMSON in this and succeeding editorials will attempt to justify fully this position by setting forth the reasoning on which it is based...
Those who contend that college athletics are only for the few were refuted recently in the statistics presented before the meeting of the National Collegiate Association in Chicago. These statistics, covering the general field of collegiate activities, unquestionably prove that it is the many who derive the benefits of systematic athletic training. Harvard is a typical example. While there are only eighty-two men in the University who have won their "H", the actual number engaged in athletics is over 1,300. Similar facts are evident in all large universities. At Cornell there are some 625 men competing...
Candidates for the publicity and poster design competitions must report at Claverly 36 Monday night at 7.30 o'clock, when plans for the spring publicity campaign will be outlined. The work of the publicity candidates will not be hard and should prove of practical value to those interested in the work of a theatrical press agent. Details of the poster design competition will be explained at the meeting...