Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of 29 colleges of New England, New York, and New Jersey is called at the Hotel Kimball, Springfield, for February 15, to talk over plans for a new Intercollegiate Association. The meeting will consider the advisability of holding a two-days' athletic meet in Springfield every...
Professor W. B. Munro '99, in a talk before the Freshman Debating Club last night, spoke on "The Lessons of the War." The first lesson learned from the war is that military preparedness is futile if the cause is wrong. "Germany was easily the most thoroughly prepared nation in the war," said Professor Munro, "but her cause was wrong and her military strength availed her nothing." The next point brought out was the necessity of avoiding war in the future, while the last two dealt with the lesson of the war as regards education, mental and physical." The government...
...University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that all he can talk about is athletics and parties. But in the hearts of every such man lies the feeling that he would exchange all his wisdom for wide friendship among his fellows...
...Hostility should be replaced by friendly rivalry between colleges and un- iversities," said Professor Greenough in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In the past too much emphasis has been placed on University teams, with too much newspaper talk and heroworship. Athletics should be made general so that the man who cannot make even a class team will be encouraged to take exercise. With these men as a foundation it would be advisable to have a pyramid of teams culminating in those which should represent the University in intercollegiate contests. If College athletics are not made accessible to every student...
Mayor Peters' talk is on the subject of "Reconstruction," with special attention to social welfare problems arising out of reconstruction work. Mr. Ernst will tell of some of the difficulties which new volunteer workers must expect to meet, and McLeod, the undergraduate speaker, will describe his experiences in rehabilitation work for discharged soldiers...