Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that college education is a failure. On the contrary it is the greatest force for progress in modern civilization. The question is simply, How can the great investment in intellectual pursuits be made to pay the maximum dividend, not in money, but in ideas and in improvement of the capacity...
Harvard is not on a "war footing" in spite of the headlines of a Boston paper, as the Alumni Bulletin points out. But the question of giving technical military instruction in American colleges is becoming insistent, and will soon have to be answered. University presidents throughout the country are in general conspicuous advocates of preparation for defense. President Lowell has consistently supported the movement; President Hibben of Princeton, in an article reprinted in the Illustrated, urges Princetonians to take advantage of the summer military camps; and President Hadley has gone so far as to suggest the advisability of military instruction...
There is no doubt that the need of greater preparedness is felt throughout the country and that college men, a majority of them, favor the movement. The question becomes, Shall our universities, especially Harvard, assist in training men who shall be fit to lead in case of war? The Alumni Bulletin, although vague in its expression, seems to feel that the University should confine itself to breeding "in their students those highest qualities of citizenship which lead quickly to the making of good soldiers, rather than to undertake actual military instruction...
...slights, real or fancied, in this regard. The best way to prevent the repetition of such an incident is to develop an eleven that will make it impracticable for Coach Haughton to have his best players absent from the field. These matters work themselves out in time. The question of appeasing the Boston spectators who stayed away from the game because of the announcement that so many of the Harvard stars would not play is another matter." HERBERT K. DENNIS...
...this country be best defended?" is the question in the mind of every thinking American today. The present conflict in Europe has shown how deplorably weak our army and navy are, even for defensive purposes. Countless suggestions and policies for a larger navy, an increased standing army, a well-organized reserve corps, and, lastly, universal military service, have poured forth through the press in superabundance. Whatever may be their plans, the majority of men in authority agree that adequate steps should be taken for the improvement of our military position. With the theories of all the different methods of modern...