Word: yieldingness
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"War as it is played today requires specialists in all departments--" so runs your leading article. Harvard, apparently, exists to turn out water-tight-compartment specialists. Since the present system of competitive intranational and international life breeds war, then Harvard should turn its talents and energies to the "adequate" production...
As for their charge of "not yielding to West Point," the introduction of military courses would hardly encroach on West Point's field of education. West Point turns out a fine class of trained officers, but Harvard's peculiar task would be to give the country a class of experts...
The Daily Princetonian has it that Harvard is yielding to the "shibboleth of commercialized undergraduate activities:" This is due to an unfortunate interpretation of a discussion held at a social service conference in Brooks House some time ago. There Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, suggested...
Echoes of the Great Game lurk in the current Advocate, but they are only echoes. Out of its seven contributions, one essay, one poem, and one story deal with athletics, and for such temperance in yielding to a present obsession the editors are to be praised.
The announcement is made this morning of a gift of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars by Mr. Edmund Cogswell Converse of Boston to the Graduate School of Business Administration to establish a Professorship of Banking. This gift is most timely and promises an end to all doubts as...