Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal...
Gives Rise To Suspicion...
...most objectionable feature lies in the suspicion that the difficulty of enforcement is likely to arouse, Bingham pointed out. An example of this suspicion is seen in the following case: the coach of one of the University's gridiron opponents told his squad that he had positive information that a Harvard coach had scouted them during the previous week, when as a matter of fact, on the day concerning which the opposing coach had his "positive information" the Crimson coach in question was with Bingham 500 miles from the above mentioned opponent...
There are other arguments that might be advanced for organized scouting. But the danger of non-scouting as a breeder of suspicion and distrust is sufficient to justify its abandonment. Like so many other reforms, conceived with the best of intentions and carried out sincerely, non-scouting has failed to work. Some would cite prohibition, which instead of removing the evils it aimed at, has brought forth a new set of evils, rendered doubly had because they are under cover. Others might cite the suppression of allegedly improper books, which had they been left alone would have died their natural...
Scouting had in recent years done away with snooping. Non-scouting seems to have caused the reappearance of the latter practice among non-official supporters at least. And even where there has been neither scouting nor snooping, there has been suspicion...