Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article on the Wireless Club is most interesting: telling as it does of the excellent work of this organization which has been almost unheard of by the College at large. The editorials are up to the usual standard, even though the discussion as to whether professor and student should speak to each other on meeting in the Yard seems a little out of place at this time. This is more than atoned for by the common sense and particular timeliness of the words on "Business as Usual" and on athletics...
...sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected plans. We must face the situation that exists...
Many changes will be necessitated in the German Department in case of the retirement of Professor Francke. As it is probable that Professor Francke will at least not continue all his courses next year, his name has been left out of the pamphlet, though most of the courses have been announced unchanged. The only other important change in this department is the modification of German 2c, making the course follow courses 2a and 2b, instead of being parallel to them. It will hereafter be known as German 5. German 28 has been made a half-course in the first half...
...neglected in the excitement. I refer especially to the housing, feeding and medical care of the poor in our large cities, to the prevention of disease, to the improvement of labor conditions and innumerable others. Some of us may choose such service in preference to military training, even though the cry of coward will continue to be raised...
...inland country volunteer for patrol boat work because they have always had a vague yearning towards the sea; and when men who can walk with equilibrium essay to fly. It does the nation small good to grow seasick for patriotism, or to wreck a delicate machine with unskilled, though ready loyalty. The nation needs sailors on the seas and aviators...