Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...
...next summer the faculty expects to have plenty of dormitory accommodations ready for the students of the college, and they have sent out notification of the new rule a year ahead of time, in order that the New Haven capitalists who own the private dormitories may have opportunity to transform them for other uses...
Such a course, taking up the history of the movement, explaining its various forms, and criticizing the remedies which it proposes for present day problems, should be able to transform the great amount of loose talk on the subject, current among undergraduates whose enthusiasm is perhaps greater than their information, into profitable discussion. The danger of Socialism in the hands of the masses is great. By learning from an authoritative source the advantages and faults of the movement while undergraduates, Harvard men should be better prepared to aid in the formation of a sound public opinion upon the question...