Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubtless hope to escape failure because of the leniency of a patriotic instructor. But it must be remembered that the Faculty is not going to be so sentimental as to let violations of this sort occur. It is on the watch for those who would plead necessity as the reason for their own backwardness...
This makes a democratic army. It does not throw the burden on the shoulders of those who are moved by an impulse of patriotism, excusing everybody else. Hard feelings would inevitably result if the nation's responsibility should be saddled on volunteers. There is vastly less reason for volunteering to go out to be shot down than for volunteering to pay one's taxes. How we should come out if the financial support of the nation were left on an optional basis, needs no diagram...
...should they subject themselves to the dangers of the battlefield before other citizens of equal age, privileges and responsibilities? There is no logical reason, and that is why the new army should be raised according to the principle of universal liability. The antiquated and undemocratic system of volunteer armies failed miserably in the Civil War. England has suffered needlessly and delayed final victory for the Allies because she clung to the old tradition of volunteer armies during the first year of the war. Surely this country will not be deaf to the advice of a glorious and respected ally that...
...this reason the Class Day this June will be planned as an event always to be remembered by the members of 1917. President Lowell has urged that the affair be a fitting one, and the committee in charge is already at work in carrying out this idea...
...universities and with their armies in the field that it is not desirable to cut out athletic sports however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us it is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled condition there is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may with entire fitness continue...