Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorials are numerous but lack thought. In their determination to be chatty and readable the editors have failed to penetrate to the core of their subjects. It is, for example, rather ludicrous to explain "why men go to Michigan" solely on the ground that the Harvard Christmas vacation is too short! And the suggestion that the Register take it upon itself to describe the qualifications of professors savors of the business college prospectus. The editorial on "The Hibernating Forum" is almost the only one containing a vigorous idea...
...repeat the hearty endorsement given in our reports on the camps held in 1913 and 1914. This year they were visited by a number of the members of our committee, and the committee as a whole has given attention and thought to their educational usefulness in the summer season...
...suffering and ignorance and of what is to be the end of it all. On these great questions the minister speaks. Particularly as a Christian leader he endeavors to restate in the language of the moment, and from the world view of his own time, what Jesus thought on these matters. He tries to get such a philosophy of the teaching of Jesus as will be intellectually defensible and intelligible to a twentieth-century congregation. Having thus set forth the teaching and experience of Jesus, he then endeavors to apply it to the social, economic, moral and spiritual problems...
...Harry Simmons, of Mr. Courtney's story. The Great Orator," is far from Mr. Roosevelt's "college sissy who disapproves of football or boxing because it is rough." At the mere thought of disturbing a lecture, "'By God,' he cried, 'if I must go then I'll go as a man should...
...protection. The year before the war broke out Belgium instituted compulsory military service. If she had done this five years before and so been able to show a defensive strength of perhaps 500,000 men, as against the 100,000 she did have immediately avail- able, Germany would have thought twice before invading Belgian territory...