Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contemplated that during the academic year the University will suspend its regular course of instruction. No consideration has been given to such a step and it is quite certain that it would not be adopted if proposed. It has been suggested that in the event of a declaration of war in the near future, those men who in any way enter the Government service be permitted to take examinations on their college work in advance of the regular period, their work for the year being then terminated and put to their credit. No formal decision has been reached...
...exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among us. All in all, it is a distinct step forward. N. C. STARR...
Harvard has made one decisive step towards preparedness. More than eleven hundred men volunteered for military training in the R. O. T. C., thus assuming their share in meeting the grave crisis. But in itself this step was inadequate. Trained men are absolutely necessary, but by no means sufficient to ensure military strength. To be fully efficient they should be immediately available for service...
Most of those who talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more...
...only one possible to the maintenance of American honor. Now, the Harvard Union for American Neutrality is in itself a repudiation of the President's brave words, for the United States is not now neutral, even officially, and this Union, hearing that the President takes an important step to preserve honor, has the supreme effrontery to say that "honor is not at stake...