Word: towards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard proposal is that students shall hereafter, except in a few cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...
...present naval appropriations will expire on the 30th of June, and unless Congress is called in special session before then, there will be no funds with which to operate the navy. For this reason, we have to be extremely careful in all expenditures, and can take no steps toward the establishment of naval units or the increase of the reserve this spring, but plans for the organization of the college units should be ready by next fall...
...other reason for the old major sport situation has not yet been entirely removed, nor is it as easy to cope with as the first. It is none other than that old bogy, the apathy of many college men toward athletics, and a non-realization of the real and permanent good to be obtained from any form of physical sport steadily pursued. The situation in this regard is much better than formerly, but there is still much room for further improvement. That by far the greatest interest in sports is taken this year by Freshmen is a good sign...
...months of wartime service, coupled with the present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions...
...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...