Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy is thus impossible. The policy of the paper necessarily changes with successive boards, as each one in turn presents its ideas to the reading public. The Transcript notes that the present CRIMSON policy favoring preparedness does not coincide with that of the board of two years ago. The reason is plain; the present board has a radically different attitude. How could a faculty censor improve matters? Certainly he could no feel justified in binding the CRIMSON editors to a fixed, consistent policy, to which they could not sincerely subscribe...
...platform is there a single word to indicate any opposition by its signers to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or to preparedness; but from some fad or fancy the CRIMSON has construed the document into an expression of hostility and has turned loose its mighty wrath. The reason for this, I believe, can be made out from a consideration of the way in which the CRIMSON has come to be our heroic defender of the national honor...
...Union, he says: "What we stand for, above all, is a democratic and enlightened method of deciding whether war or peace is our duty. What we are fighting against are the Prussian methods and spirit which do at least seem to threaten Harvard's ideas of freedom and reason...
...manufactured opinion that already has millions of the sons of men destroying one another. It is overcome by the "tinsel and braggadocio" of marching armies and booming navies. Here is a fine illustration of how an idea, half thought out, may take one off his feet when experience and reason do not give him sufficient footing. The Union may be "idealistic"; it is at least thoughtful and deserves to have an intelligent interpretation put upon its conduct. After attacking the Union the valiant CRIMSON brushes the mud from its skirts and says, with the air of a martyr: "Those...
...then it might have arrived at a course of action before the time for deliberation had passed. What little influence it has had or will have among Harvard men during this critical period when there should be no discordant note of hesitancy is harmful and intolerable. For this reason alone the CRIMSON disagrees with and denounces the spirit of this organization which hinders steps toward immediate national preparedness, the delay of which may mean ruin and dishonor...