Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decline during the last few years, in the amount and quality of the literary output from the colleges. Things have changed since Bryant published his "Thanatopsis" in the North American Review. Almost every other department of college activity has seen a marked rise in efficiency, and there is no reason why this field should be left undeveloped. Recent "college fiction" has shown the acute need of sanity and skill in this field, at least. It is no logical objection to say that the undergraduate is not mature enough to write for the average reader. It is not so great...
...pleasant book notice (hardly review), and Frederick Robinson's reaction on the "New Intoxication" complete the non-fictional prose. The last appears to miss in the phrase "the new intoxication" an implied criticism of all religion that it partakes of a kind of divine phrensy not reconciled to sober reason...
...item in your issue of March 4, under the caption, "Speaker Urged Stronger Armament." This proves to be a report of my discussion of the Armament question at the Harvard Union on March 3. What I did in fact urge was that there is not the least reason for increasing armaments. The present war is, in my opinion, the outcome of the long series of conflicts of interest attending the era of colonial expansion, now practically closed. We never had a serious conflict of interest in this field, and consequently were not menaced by any other power, before...
...there really seems to be no reason for the spring recess coming at a time so unsatisfactory to everyone. Is it because by changing it a time-honored custom would be broken? Yet it is only a few years ago that the arrangements of Commencement week were changed. Is it because the change would interfere with the April hours? This does not seem to be a valid reason. For since the November hours come only five or six weeks after the opening of college the April hours could be all over several weeks earlier than they now are. For they...
...purpose of the Bureau is to offer assistance to students in the College who for one reason or another are behind in their work. While primarily intended for men on probation or near the danger line, it will also benefit those who, though not in immediate difficulties, are nevertheless not getting the most out of their work...