Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...think I am correct in saying that not one of the men who defended military preparedness at the forum held on that subject has ever been a candidate for the rifle team. It is quite possible for any man with good eyes to become a crack rifle shot, and some of the best shots in College today had never held a gun in their hands until two years...
...eminen problems of this country today. Harvard, however, is not the place in which to begin preparations for war, if as Congressman Gardner and General Wood assert, such measures are immediated necessary. Let our regular soldiers be properly equipped, and our military reorganized before we even begin to think of carrying war into our educational institutions. Harvard has, and I am convinced will do, as she always has done her share, not more than her share, in war as in peace. But let us hope and pray, that she will never have to setforth again her students...
...worthy of serious consideration. Without a doubt there are many men who, if given the opportunity would be glad to join a military organization of Harvard men. A great many colleges, including Princeton and Michigan, now have such organizations. That it adds to the prestige of the University, I think no one who attended the Harvard Michigan football game last autumn will deny...
Many men believe all such training to be "dry" and "stiff." Of course, a certain amount of discipline is necessary but the work need not be made uninteresting and I do not think that it would be if the training consisted not merely of infantry drill but also of instruction in signalling, shooting, and so forth...
...Student Council has not acted with its usual promptness in this important matter. I know that I shall be held personally responsible by the undergraduates." L. A. Morgan '17 corroborated A. Beane's statements, and shaking the reporter by the hand said: "We fellows over at Phillips Brooks House think the world of Arthur, and we simply will not have him blamed for the weather. So there...