Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact is as that the CRIMSON states: League or no League, we must have a force adequate for self-protection. The League, we all hope, will do much to lessen the number of future wars; but it seems most irrational, to say the least, to advocate placing practically our entire reliance upon it as a means of defense...
Your editorial on universal military training does not, I hope, express the general attitude of Harvard on the subject. Some of us here think that the war has not been fought in vain...
Having been induced to fight a costly war in the hope of getting rid of the need for military training, we are now advised that this war, far from making the world safe for democracy, has only emphasized the need for more extensive preparation than this nation has ever before witnessed. We were told, in fact, that, unless we went to war, we should have to organize the nation on a military basis in order to protect ourselves from an aggressive Germany. The implication was that the alternative would be freedom from this incubus which has-drained the treasuries...
Whether we are proud of Harvard's war record or not, whether we have contributed to it or not, whether we like Harvard's present military policy or not, whether we approve the first four recommendations of the Committee or not, I hope and believe that I express the thoughts of most Harvard men and most men interested in Harvard in condemning as utterly improper this final recommendation...
...idle theorists can hope for such a graceful subject of theorizing as Mr. Gleason has proven in last Friday's CRIMSON, Answering Mr. Fleming's article on labels, he appropriately steps forward, crowns his opponent with a sort of gigantic preserve-jar label "radical," and thereby pickles him for life, shelving him where no unwitting undergraduate lover of the constitution can be in danger of his phizzing over again...