Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should reap the benefit. Obviously this, while it has explanatory value, cannot reconcile the College to the danger of becoming a local institution. The activities of the Harvard Clubs throughout the country and of the now defunct Territorial Clubs show that Harvard men are not content with explaining the phenomenon. It is the opinion of many that the examination system is largely responsible. This feeling has led to the establishment of the New Plan which, while good as far as it goes, has not changed the situation radically. The Faculty looks with horror upon admission by certificate...
...basic fallacy of militarism. To the militarist war is an evitable as rain; it being futile to try to prevent rain, we can only resign ourselves to protection against it. To the anti-militarist exactly the opposite is the true situation. War between nations is no more an inevitable phenomenon of nature than physical conflicts between individuals, and no less subject to control by law and reason...