Word: units
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first step towards abolishing war is to abolish those conditions which are incentives for it. The substitution of a world state for anarchy has been suggested. This would tend to bind the nations into a unit, making them more dependent upon one another. History shows that national sovereignty is gradually emerging and it will probably come sooner or later. It is essential to diminish the independence of nations and make them more inter-dependent if we wish to discourage...
...There is first the possibility of the system which obtained in the 1914 football season, the "one-sided competition" which brought defeat at the hands of the Yale freshmen. The University Freshmen were at a disadvantage in having their team chosen from interdormitory teams without sufficient practice as a unit. Victory is, of course, not an end in itself; but human nature is so constituted that the prospect of victory is needed to bring out the greatest enthusiasm and effort. One-sided competition is unsatisfactory and disheartening. And the proposal to abandon Freshman intercollegiate athletics entirely involves a revolutionary principle...
...battle of the Marne the section to which he was attached did service in the neighborhood of Paris, following the armies back toward the Aisne as the fighting moved farther and farther away from the city. In October this section was attached to a British Red Cross unit with their base near Neuve Chapelle in Northern France and was later moved to Dunkerque and then to Eleverdingle, near Ypres in Belgium. At this last place the cars did the advanced field work usually done by the horse-drawn ambulances. Open only to members of the Union...
...single course is not, and cannot be, the true unit in education. The real unit is the student. He is the only thing in education that is an end in itself." These words from President Lowell's report which the CRIMSON prints in a supplement today, epitomize the reasons for the various guidances and restrictions which have been and are being thrown around the student in his choice and prosecution of courses. The new elective system has been followed by a tutorial system in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, and by the requirement of some supervision...
...work, being the first ambulances to handle the men. Drivers going over are sent directly to these sections, there being no delay in Paris or no uncertainty as to where they are to be sent. Men going over together may stay together. The expense is the smallest of any unit, uniforms and all expenses over there being paid by Mr. Hayes. For men wishing to go but financially unable, arrangements, might be made...