Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of value inherent in the collegiate grouping and tutorial staffs in Oxford or Cambridge may fairly be summed up as personal contact, interest, and reaction. The head, tutors, and undergraduates are all members of one body. In the opinion of the late Dr. Arthur L. Smith, Master of Balliol, in most instances the tutor knows the undergraduate more intimately and thoroughly than do even his parents...
...year. The articles are not meant to be the outburst of stifled students; men at Harvard have no need for such resources. They are not intended to represent or promote III feeling between teacher and student; rather they should help in achieving the other extreme. To present the undergraduate reaction in each of the more important fields of concentration is the sole purpose of these articles. Tomorrow the Freshmen will listen to President Lowell explain the teachers' attitude; the CRIMSON presents the students' point of view...
...After the violent reaction to President Wilson's policies which kept this country out of the League when it was originally formed, there has been a gradual reversion of feeling among the people of the United States as they have come to realize the necessity of the League in preserving world peace and order. I am firmly convinced that if the matter were now referred to a general vote of the people, the result would be overwhelmingly in favor of our entry into the League. Although the government may not seem to realize this now, the pressure of popular feeling...
...events of the past week testify in a striking fashion to the reaction which has set in against the application of a system of military conscription to American schools and colleges. At Amherst, a conclave of New England high school principals adopted resolutions against compulsory drill and even more noteworthy in view of the almost complete dominance of the R. O. T. C. there a year ago, President Marsh has ruled that military science shall no longer be a required course at Boston University...
...Senator Butler's record at Washington has been none too impressive And now, with the mid-term reaction rising ominously, Mr. Walsh, in his undoubted popularity, stands a very good chance of being elected...