Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every college has what are generally known as "snap courses." But it is not right to assume that all of them are easy ...... It may very well be that these courses appeal to men for the simple reason that the teacher knows how to make them appealing. Put the same work in the hands of an incompetent and inexperienced instructor,...... and it will no longer be identified with the name of "snap course." It will immediately become an uninteresting course, and over it the undergraduate will hoist the red flag of danger as a warning to his unsuspecting fellows. --Boston...
...policy of the Harvard Magazine as stated, is "to publish the best in Harvard and Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
...view of the open letter to the Board of Overseers which serves as an editorial, the connection with the paper of the instructors in question might well be cleared up. The purpose of the letter is an entirely worthy one. The unfortunate inference, however, is that somebody has an axe to grind...
Senator Lodge's criticism of the League of Nations Constitution seems to centre in the fear that the United States, by endorsing such an agreement, would be robbed of its right of sovereignty in domestic as well as in foreign affairs. This attitude of his is peculiarly interesting in view of a statement made by him in May, 1916, in support of the platform of the League to Enforce Peace. At that time he is quoted as saying: "I know how quickly we shall be met with the statement that this is a dangerous question which you are putting into...
...This argument seems to me unanswerable. It is simply a question of whether or not the United States and her sister nations are willing to sacrifice some of the rights which in the past they have so jealously guarded and thereby secure greater brotherhood among themselves in practice as well as in theory. The alternative proposed by Senator Lodge, that of reserving to each nation the right of self-determination in questions of domestic policy would make of the League a veritable dumb-show. For if the question of immigration were to be exempted from the League's jurisdiction...