Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general outline of the plan for military instruction at Harvard seems excellent," said General John Henry Sherburne '99 when interviewed for the CRIMSON recently. "One of the most serious troubles in the last war was to obtain trained and experienced officers. It is very fitting that Harvard should establish a school to remedy this great deficiency...
...would seem reasonable to suppose that an expression of opinion in an editorial column ought at least to be serious. The columns of a daily college newspaper are not the most appropriate place for attempts at satire. Editorial candidates who desire to imitate the "Spectator" should at least conform more closely to their model...
...League situation would make it more worth while, if the Student Council and the University authorities are so minded, to secure another speaker. Of course Mr. Taft is the most prominent available leader of constructive thought on this subject. But there is no dearth of other fair-minded and serious Americans who have studied the problem. Perhaps one or more of them would be glad to address a collegiate League of Nations mass-meeting...
...social improvement, but will insist upon the maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation...
...promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest kind of work can a man become an officer and a college graduate at one and the same time. Boston Transcript...