Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Much has been said during the last month concerning the losses which our universities are suffering by reason of diminished attendance due to the war. But the experience of Oxford and Cambridge, the great institutions of higher learning in England, should be pertinent as demonstrating that if the war lasts long enough its effect on our colleges will not merely be shown in figures of decreased enrolment, or financial deficits, or courses of study omitted. Three years of war have virtually taken away from these English universities all their physically-fit students. In their place are coming the young...
...this year there is another reason for better rates, which excluding all other considerations should determine the commission to grant them. That is the war need of the government. Daniel Willard, the Chairman of Council of National Defense, in sounding the warning against permitting the railroads to approach exhaustion, pointed out the terrible consequences that had happened in France where such a condition had been allowed to take place. If the carriers of the nation decrease in efficiency, the whole industrial system will be tied up and the war work of the government jeopardized. From fairness to the railroads...
...command a large unit or to act as supply and top sergeants is unsound and untenable. The men now training here should be given every possible opportunity to exercise leadership. If some are fit for captaincies and the rank of the higher sergeant positions, there is no valid reason for preventing them...
...improved style there is more "rhyme and reason" in the general make-up of the third issue of the Illustrated. Aside from the actual value of the photographs which are appropriate, the progressive arrangement of photography and literature to the page has a soothing effect on one's sense of proportion; furthermore, and happily, "those who are," at headquarters realize that the Illustrated can be the Illustrated and still contain reading matter. There is a faint touch of the latter by the presence of Professor Cestre's sincere warning, faint touch in regard to the quantity of the article which...
...your paper of Oct. 25, 1917, I saw a caustic criticism of Yale's athletic stand. One sentence states: "There never has been any real reason why Yale should not have gone into football at the start of the college year as most other universities have done...