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...officers' camp if he has an opportunity such as this to gain the regular army spirit. In addition, an officer who has lived among the men as one of them will be more able to understand and appreciate them, and therefore to command their respect. Finally we must not sneer at the added training which we will receive; there are in the cantonments two features which cannot be obtained at a college camp; perfect equipment and the best instruction...
...hours nearer to New York than that far-famed winter resort and the lure of the Metropolis is something to look forward to after all. The man who has weathered a Cambridge winter can pack up his ba-ba in the old kit bag and sneer at the terrors of a Yaphank winter...
...begin to dispose of the issue. But it does indicate the scientific method of approach. It is utterly opposed to the swashbuckling code of honor or manliness, which sets up the slab-back policy and the hip-pocket ethics as categorical imperatives under all circumstances. To snub with a sneer the claims of a thousand other considerations is not patriotism; it is treason. CECIL H. SMITH 2L. Chairman. H. DAVIS '18. R. H. GARRISON '18. G. L. HOWE '18. A. N. McCOMB '18. W. B. SOUTHWORTH '18. C. F. ZUKOSKI '19. B. D. ALLISON...
Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...
...days when Yale used to win most of her games from Harvard, the Harvard sneer at Yale for making such a serious matter of her sports was very familiar. Harvard used to say, and try to believe, that play ought not to be made such grim work. Now that conditions are reversed, the attitude toward football, assumed or real, is reversed also. Yale takes some satisfaction in saying that Hinkey has made the game enjoyable to his men anyhow. On the other hand it is evident that Harvard now makes as serious a matter of its sports as Yale used...