Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be brought to agreement by the power of competition. This general line could be followed by you and the Yale and Princeton papers by making football relatively less important to other college activities. I firmly believe more could be accomplished this way for it is the newspapers which stir up public opinion, and it is the newspapers which have made this mountain out of what virtually is a molehill...
Pershing's statement is not idle sabrerattling, calculated to stir up the alarmists, and is not in the least catering to a militarist party. He asks merely for permanency and continuity in the army policy in order to make possible high standards of morale and efficiency, and he wants to prevent further reduction in numbers, because the present force is barely large enough. As it is planned, the overhead organization effective at present is not wholly for the administration of the regular army, but is planned as the fundamental frame-work of the regulars, the reserves, and the potentials,--these...
...student of Princeton University, add some new light to the recent examinations in a course labeled "An introduction to History and Economics," which has caused such a stir on the campus and spelt doom for so many of the very young...
...Daily Princetonian" created a flurry in the world of colleges by proposing higher tuition fees for the rich than for the poor. The stir was so great, in fact, that the "New York Times" saw fit to comment on the plan editorially. What the "Princetonian" said in effect was this: the present tuition fee comes nowhere near meeting the actual cost to the college of a student's education. It is unwise, however, to raise the fee for all, because a larger fee would keep away the poor. But there is no reason why the rich should share the benefit...
...radical movement they are only doing intelligent citizen's duty. If the great body of students shows total unconcern toward the whole question--as is nearer the true situation--colleges are, in fact, far from hot beds of radicalism, and stand in need of a few live coals to stir them up to a comprehension of the uncertain state of society. --Yale News...