Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great issue when I was a CRIMSON editor in 1915-16, was much the same as it is today. It was whether the United States would accept the burden of responsibility which history had placed upon it. In those days the question was one of "preparedness." We on the CRIMSON were interventionists. We fought for-and got--a Harvard Regiment, which later turned into a part of the ROTC...
...most of us--with service in two wars under our belts--are still facing the same issue. Only now it is a question of accepting our national responsibility in making sure that these two wars shall not have been fought in vain. My best friend on the CRIMSON was Fuzzy Blaine. One of his sons died on Saipan. If Fuzzy and I were competing today as editorial "heelers," I am sure that we should be vying with each other in trying to make people see that the Marshall Plan must be adopted--without stint or strings--because...
What does the CRIMSON men to me? I suppose every old CRIMSON man who tries to face this question will have a different answer. What we get out of life depends so much on what we put into it. Coming to Harvard from a small school, naturally shy, and quite without-friends, and going out for the paper in my freshman year, I found that the Crime, for me, opened doors in Cambridge which otherwise I might never have discovered. I worked harder for the CRIMSON than I had ever worked before. It was not my first paper...
...trials of the debate for the Pasteur medal will take place Monday evening, January 22, at 8 o'clock in Sever 10. It was announced that contestants would be asked to give a five-minute speech on either side of the question: "Resolved, That France is justified in her present policy of collecting reparations from Germany...
Granted that a good deal of "bull-slinging goes on in exams involving essay question, some conclusion must inevitably be reached. The better an interpretation of the reading that conclusion is (leaving lots of room for the variety of interpretations,) the better the mark. Intelligent students (they tell me) do the same thing Mr. Cramer does, more or less, and I don't suppose the college cares half as much as everybody thinks whether the interpretation of reading matter is done by the student or Mr. Cramer...