Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effect of this on colleges will not be slight. By giving to numerous institutions a semi-military character, the training units must surely attract those coming undergraduates who hesitate in entering. No one can feel that his further education is needless, if that is combined with preparation for a commission. In the face of decreasing enrolments, much encouragement lies in the fact that universities will come to include men who want military instruction...
...commonest military engineering matters. As an illustration of this, every West Point graduate is a technically trained man. Members of the R. O. T. C., if fortunate, are going to get ranks similar to those of West Point graduates and you can appreciate the importance of at least a slight familiarity with the kinds of problems at which men in the engineering corps must be expert...
...number of men accredited to the University by Professor Van Dyke shows a slight discrepancy in the statistics published in yesterday's CRIMSON, which were compiled by J. H. Hyde '98, of Paris. These latter figures showed that 348 Harvard men were in the American Field Service before it was taken over by the United States Army. The difference in the figures is due to the fact that Professor Van Dyke includes in his statistics only drivers in the ambulance section proper, while Mr. Hyde's report also took into consideration the supply and other branches of the American organization...
...uppermost in our minds when the news came that Jerusalem had fallen. At present we are thinking more of how to defeat Germany than anything else. The capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress in our aim. We did not intend to slight so great a race as the Jewish people, one which is doing so much in this struggle, but our pleasure over the Allies securing a firmer foothold in Palestine went far beyond racial bonds. Success is our first consideration in all war questions. We might also add, that...
...heavy decrease in enrollment which Harvard has undergone has been felt most in the College, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in the Law School and in the Graduate School of Business Administration. As was the case at Yale, the Medical School shows a slight increase in registration...