Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cutler's ingenious letter on "The Failure of Distribution" is not concerned, as some might suppose from the title, with "unearned increments," but with the recent modification of the elective system. He is disturbed by the thought that some brilliant young men may be handicapped in their careers as specialists by the necessity of distributing some of their courses in other departments than their favored ones. Probably he will not succeed in convincing many readers that his fear is reasonable. His appeal to the example of our grandfathers seems singularly inapposite: to be sure, our grandfathers did not know...
...will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when we might be spending it in learning and spreading lessons of peace. Then, when the time comes for us to talk to the world of plans...
...done from going further, as is that of the volunteer soldier, but one which is at least a constructive beginning towards preventing the need for making such sacrifices at all. Why should not the inspiration of the present war call forth a practical patriotism on the part of the young men of the single great country not in the conflict to give at least a portion of their lives to the prevention of war itself...
...mere physical bravery, or even of patriotism in actual warfare, but a question of officers who know their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet the demand, and of an army of efficiently trained soldiers. Without these necessary requisites of a successful military machine, the best of our young men would have to be sacrificed in the early stages of a conflict, in order to teach such blind unbelievers as the CRIMSON that preparedness and militarism are as different as black and white, that efficiency depends upon previous training and experience, of the sort that men will gain...
...twenty-five years Cambridge has been a no-license city. Harvard men should bear this in mind and vote "No" today. The polls are open from 6 A. M. until 4.30 P. M. R. R. COWEN '16, vice-president, Cambridge Young Men's Republican Club...