Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pennsylvanian has been publishing from day to day the opinions of the prominent members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania on the question of universal military training. So far the statements have been by a large majority favorable to the adoption of such a system, 17 deans and professors stating emphatically their approval of the step, while five come out as opposed to it. Not all of the 17 believe in a military course at the university, but all agree as to its general need and the opportunities for physical development that it offers. Two of the professors...
...detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review of "The Backwash of the War" is interesting in its disregard of the important question whether less war now may not mean more...
...question of universal military service is now before the nation; and with it the question whether the inauguration of universal service in America at this time will hinder the proposed movement toward world peace. Foreign nations would far more readily accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important...
...ninth annual intercollegiate debate under the triangular system, between the University, Yale and Princeton will be held on Friday, March 23. Yale will debate one of the University teams in Cambridge, while the other will meet Princeton at Princeton. The question to be discussed has been announced as follows...
Trials for the University teams will start on Tuesday, February 13, when all candidates are to report in either Harvard 5 or 6 at 7.30 o'clock prepared with a five minute speech on either side of the question. The next trial will be held the following Thursday in the New Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock, at which time ten-minute speeches will be made. The final trials are scheduled for Saturday, February 17, in the New Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock. At this time the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 will be awarded to the winning speaker...