Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the interest in Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University and elsewhere the CRIMSON has asked several prominent army officers to express their opinions as to the ultimate value of the proposed plan, and to make suggestions as to the most practical methods of conducting such a course. In this connection the following letter from Major-General Samuel S. Sumner, U. S. A., retired...
...heroic mood," and who seem to feel that at a time when most of the world is at war, it is somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that our differences with Mexico ought to be made an affair of honor. President Wilson's view seems to be that it would be dishonorable and cowardly to make war upon a weak nation, distracted by civil wars. Remembering that this Republic is dedicated to certain great principles, he apparently feels that we ought to put no difficulties in the way of those Mexicans who are fighting...
...stands. Though there will be four or five sections less than in former years with these connecting links left out, there will still be plenty of room to accommodate the crowds, and under the new scheme all the seats will be so situated as to give a good view of the field...
...only to search the columns of any daily paper to find the variety of predigested information furnished in the city, much of it on Sunday. Ford Hall meetings, Tremont Temple addresses, public library meetings, Lowell lectures and Faneuil Hall meetings, not to mention special lectures, crowd into view. The majority of students sleep half of Sunday and loaf the other half, or spend the entire day seeking a mild sort of amusement. How much better to utilize Sunday afternoons and evenings by attending a meeting of lecture of educational value...
...Boston Transcript disagrees with the verdict of such figures and considers the assertion "that the attainment of high grades in collegiate studies is normally necessary to the attainment of success in life" an absurdity. In order to expose the absurdity of this view the Transcript cites the classic example of Generals Grant and Lee in the Civil War. The latter attained the highest rank at West Point, while Grant was satisfied with "a gentleman's standard," yet in their later careers the advantage appears to have been reversed. Upon careful investigation and reference to impartial authorities, Lee, fighting...