Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...South American affairs, is the fortunate recipient of six hundred volumes relating to the history and literature of Brazil. They are the gift of the Honorable Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, American Ambassador to that country. Such a gain in resources forms an added reason why more undergraduates should turn their attention to this profitable field for study and service...
...Harvard kept men enough, and of good enough quality, to prevent Brown scoring; and although Harvard in turn could not score, that is to it a matter of inferior moment to the winning of the Crimson's principal game, namely, the contest with Yale...
...played today requires specialists in all departments--" so runs your leading article. Harvard, apparently, exists to turn out water-tight-compartment specialists. Since the present system of competitive intranational and international life breeds war, then Harvard should turn its talents and energies to the "adequate" production of specialists in war. . . . not yielding to West Point in this achievement...
...being a profitable, honorable and very respectable profession to follow in this twentieth century all young men should have "adequate" opportunity of "making good" in that alluring profession. If Harvard with all its traditions, its intellect, its privileges, can turn out a "group of military specialists" . . . "invaluable to the country in time of war," then Harvard has done its duty by America...
...their charge of "not yielding to West Point," the introduction of military courses would hardly encroach on West Point's field of education. West Point turns out a fine class of trained officers, but Harvard's peculiar task would be to give the country a class of experts to supplement the present military staff. Since Harvard has the larger Faculty, a far more diversified list of courses, and a greater opportunity for scientific research, the military specialist would find his natural place here instead of at West Point. A feeling of rivalry would be impossible because of the difference...