Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enable new men to take it this half-year under the name of Government 4b. This particular course takes up the principles of international war as illustrated in historical cases, and then these same principles are applied to questions arising from the current events of the day. For this reason this course was considered to be of timely interest at the present time when the war in Europe is developing daily any number of laboratory cases for students to discuss in connection with the principles learned in Government 4b. The second half-year is entirely devoted to the consideration...
...Germany's conduct during the entire war differs from that of England, except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans who were in close proximity thereto. I did not uphold Germany's action at the time, but as an American I saw no good reason why my country should assume the responsibilities of war on the strength of that occurence. Having allowed that crisis to pass, what reasonable excuse have we now? Germany has done nothing. She has merely declared a blockade which is at least as defensible as England's, and no more likely...
...writing of acceptable plays, however, undergraduate ability is usually lacking and in this department, alone the club has been almost entirely dependent on the work of graduate dramatists. Granting that it is difficult for undergraduates to write good long plays, there is no reason why the short plays which the Dramatic Club stages in the spring should not be the products of their pens. There are plenty of men in the University with both time and ability to conceive plots and weave them into plays for the enjoyment of others...
...possible, as so often happens, that men are holding back till the last day simply because it is the last day. There is no reason at all for such delay. The committee has many arrangements to make; it must have the class behind...
...there is no reason why the subject of universal military training should not be debated now. Harvard's balloting has not settled the question; it is a topic of more than a day's importance, one which will continue to be of acute interest until sober discussion has decided it one way or the other. A triumph achieved without preliminary argument, though it may be indicative, cannot be regarded as final. Both sides may still make converts...