Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...designate as pacifists all those men who are opposed to compulsory military training, we are beginning a glorification of the word "pacifism," a word odious to most Americans during the war. In this category of 'pacifists" we would then be obliged to put such men as Colonel Logan and Major-General Sherburne--they are opposed to military training. We think those gentlemen would resent such implication. Certainly their friends would...
Apparently such a course of inaction can be explained in but two ways: either the war has not taught us anything worth adopting, or else we have not been keen enough to profit from its lessons. Is it again a case of "Harvard indifference," or is there a deeper reason than appears on the surface...
...recent address a professor of the University gave an explanation of Harvard's inaction which is worthy of thoughtful consideration. He said that the reason there had been no abrupt upset here after the war is that Harvard has always progressed at a smooth rather than a jerky rate. Ever on the lookout and with committees always investigating and suggesting improvements, the University has grown slowly but continuously. In this way Harvard, under President Eliot, faced the period of readjustment after the Civil War. The growth of the graduate schools, the liberalizing of the requirements for the degree...
...writing "Wade In, Sanitary," Dr. Richard Derby has made no commonplace contribution to the already large collection of personal memoirs and reminiscences connected with the Great War...
...first meeting of the Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association held since the war took place last week at Princeton. The meeting was held for the purpose of fixing the date of this year's intercollegiate meet, electing officers and discussing new questions as to judges and apparatus. It was decided to hold the 1920 intercollegiate meet at Haverford on March...