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...question. The verdict of the University will not determine the nation's course, but it will have far more influence on the question of universal military training than it had in determining who should be nominated in Chicago or elected in November. Since the Senate Committee will understand the result as expressing the sentiment of the entire University, each man should exercise due care in casting his ballot...
Many of the best military authorities firmly believe that universal military training in some form is the only measure will bring the individual citizen to an intelligent realization of his duty to the nation, and result in an adequate defence for the country. For this reason the Chamberlain Bill has been drawn up and will be placed before Congress in the near future. At present the Senate Committee on Military Affairs is giving hearings to representative men in order to obtain the sentiment of all classes as regards this question. Already a number of college men, expressing their personal opinions...
Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle by registering an overwhelming vote in favor of universal military training. Tomorrow is Harvard's first chance to help solve this national question and the result of the vote ought to strengthen Harvard's position as a patriotic institution...
...None of the Eastern rowing colleges, with the exception of Cornell, have a satisfactory four mile course at home, and the result has been the establishment of elaborate training quarters away from the atmosphere and routine of university life, where rowing is no longer a recreation for men engaged in college work, but where for nearly a month every year they live to row, supported by gate receipts from commercialized athletics, or by the generosity of opulent patrons. The size of the rowing budget is thus enormously and unnecessarily increased, and rowing itself suffers from being considered a drain...
Edison has repeatedly maintained that his success is principally the result of perseverance, and he declares that genius is "one-tenth inspiration and nineteenths perspiration." This view seems to be logical, but at the same time in direct contradiction to the theory that President Lowell has so often expounded. The latter declares that the world needs men who have the imagination to find new problems, and emphatically not the kind of men who can automatically solve any problem that is presented to them...