Word: words
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Addison Leech Bliss '16 died last Thursday in France after a short attack of pneumonia, while serving with the American Ambulance Field Service. Bliss sailed form New York on January 28 with a detachment of ambulanciers, and word came that he had arrived safely in Paris. A cable received a week before his death informed his parents that he had contracted a cold, but no alarm was felt over his condition...
Nowhere in the seven declarations of the platform is there a single word to indicate any opposition by its signers to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or to preparedness; but from some fad or fancy the CRIMSON has construed the document into an expression of hostility and has turned loose its mighty wrath. The reason for this, I believe, can be made out from a consideration of the way in which the CRIMSON has come to be our heroic defender of the national honor...
...modification of Oxford's educational terminology is a distinct concession to American prejudice, which makes the title of Doctor the end and consummation of a man's learning. It is a little thing, the matter of a word. Yet Napoleon upturned the world because he wanted to be named Emperor rather than Consul. And many Americans of distinct scholarly ability have gone through other and less congenial training because the sound of a Philosophical Doctor was sweeter to their ears than a mere Literary Bachelor...
...CRIMSON recently, "It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders." This means, does it not, that the President shall commit the American people to war or peace without their saying one word. Our newspapers, of course, do not voice public opinion, but only print class opinions. Use the word "Kaiser" and you could not tell it was not Prussia. So far, therefore, as the R. O. T. C. discourages thinking, thinking straight and thinking publicly, we believe it suffocates our democracy. We submit...
...danger of the spirit represented by this new by-word is a cause for nothing less than national alarm. It is easy enough to follow the band down the street and entrain for the front when the flags are out and the only girl in the world has kissed you goodby. It is easy enough, but it is frightfully ineffective...