Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case of a reduction in the age limit, colleges would probably suffer most of all. The student body would be composed largely of the unfit. We dislike the idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
...being approximately the same. The dons, or, as we should say, the faculty, have had their incomes from all sources reduced at least one-half or two-thirds in most cases. While it is difficult to estimate situations of this sort before-hand, I should imagine that if the war continues and we raise larger armies with a reduced draft age, the attendance in the College might well drop to three or four hundred students, possibly even lower...
...years in college I should have them under strict military discipline, with a prescribed military course, lectures in the morning, practical work in the afternoon. At the age of nineteen, on completing their studies, they should be well prepared for a second lieutenant's commission, and even if the War Department declined to recognize the school by automatically issuing commissions to its graduates, I think it would be all the better that they should go straight into the ranks for a period that would undoubtedly be short, as their competence would give them their step before long. It seems...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...
...most of us who have stayed at home, the burdens of a great war have rested easily. While others are offering life for a cause, the extent of our privations has been the absence of sugar from the breakfast cereal. An opportunity to feel this war, to aid in the alleviation of suffering that it entails should be a welcome one. Such an opportunity is at hand. Today the University is sending its contribution into Nova Scotia to clothe the victims of a disaster that has brought grief to thousands. That contribution must be worthy of the traditions of Harvard...