Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however, when he violates the letter or the spirit of the law, should be suspended or dismissed without waiting for the officers of the Government to act. The forceful parts of the report are those upholding the right and the advantage of public discussion of the objects of a war and the methods of conducting it, and pointing out the weakness of persecution as a "means for extirpating or repressing honest error, however grave and dangerous the error may be." The report condemns the dismissal of "a distinguished man of science," meaning Professor Cattell, as involving "a disregard...
...Headquarters Office also announced that the University military authorities are very favorable to the policy of having an all-college camp during the last half of the course, which is to be on the same footing with the War Department as the regular military science work...
...proverb, 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' A man in the army, without any source of decent amusement, is very liable to suffer from a loss of morale." Major Higginson then went on to tell of the need of entertainment that prevailed during the Civil War as compared with excellent conditions now being provided at the army and navy cantonments...
...officers and thus, in place of several hundred men housed together and united only by class spirit, we have in our midst a democracy ruled by four men. The problems of the Bolsheviki government may well be compared to what these newly chosen officers have to face. For the war has made 1921 the only class in the University where activities are carried on as they were in peace times. The rest of the classes have been cut down to fractions of their normal size, athletics are on a miniature scale, and the result is that the Freshman reigns supreme...
...Washington, as "Assistant to the Director in Charge of Research Problems." The University Field Laboratory--a branch of the Bureau--of which Professor Kohler is head, has also been transferred. For the past few months he has been working in Cambridge with these men on problems arising from the war...