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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges had not been fairly represented by the so-called "pacifist delegates," and that the vote taken at the University in favor of universal training was the result of "individual feeling and common sense." "The way to end war," he said, "is not for the wealthiest and worst organized country in the world to lay itself open to attack." Coolidge also stated that he considered it far more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores and business concerns could allow for summer...
...have tried to choose the worst set of images to show how far Mr. Sanborn's mistake can lead him. Out of justice to him I will quote the best image, an emotional image, if I may use the term. He is telling how two persons in a store talking in their alien English tongue feel themselves apart from the French crowd around them, and in a way above them, "Like a child's vague dream of principality." This is not studied; it is natural, effective. But unfortunately it stands in comparative solitude...
What caused F. E. P. '18--I have not looked him up for his sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says...
...Scholarship is not an initiative profession. Next to having no scholarship at all the worst possible effect on a community is to have it divorced from the ordinary interests of life. In the olden days of absolute rule, it was unnecessary to have scholarship extend beyond the throne or the monasteries. But if the government is controlled by the many, it is important that scholarship, knowledge and the ability to think straight should be widely disseminated throughout the entire people...
Under the strain of a lengthy examination, the handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing...