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...days left out in the cold. But is America to be dictated to by business, to put an efficiency expert in the presidential chair? If all environment is pressed into a regular pattern, then human beings will be only paper figures and geniuses and charming women will no longer exist. Rather let easter move from early March to late April and February twenty-ninth come but once in four...
...mere fact that the Klan should exist is cause for surprise. That college men, especially Harvard College men, supposedly rational and tolerant, should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...
...obtained to maintain the quota." General Pershing then discussed the value of R. O. T. C. training to the college and the individual saying. "It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges and academies where these units exist. There is another feature which I consider also of foremost importance and that is the training of individuals themselves. There is nothing better for a young man as to physical development than the practical experience of daily work in the R. O. T. C." Commenting on the fact that many of the larger...
...League of Nations remain only a hope at best, there may be some excuse for active preparedness in Europe, however much such preparedness may act as an incentive to war. But with the United States situated as it is, it is difficult to see how any similar excuse can exist in this country. Geographically we are free from any sudden attack; according to present indications we are not likely to throw ourselves at the first opportunity into possible European conflicts; while if preparedness is needed for imperialistic reasons in the Caribbean or in South America, it has not even...
...colleges. It is less easy to appreciate very highly some of their arguments. Speaking of the R. O. T. C. General Pershing is reported to have said--"It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges . . . Where these units exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting...