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...knew him because he went to Yale, but he was a fine fellow. He would have been manager of the football team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness in every day's journey you make. He once fell off a cliff,--perhaps...
...answer to this communication on the Freshman editorial was followed by an insulting note, and the original letter was, therefore, not published. In this instance the CRIMSON may not have followed the wisest policy; if so, it, regrets its decision, but one single instance does not furnish enough proof to substantiate the claim that the communication department is controlled by a clique or governed by any policy of hush...
Undeniably gross faults stand out. One witty undergraduate gave proof of that fact when he declared that under no conditions would he let his studies interfere with his college education. President Wilson showed his grasp of the situation when he said that he believed the side-shows of college life had diverted the interest and attention of students from the main issue. An author--an alumnus of Yale--puts these word into the mouth of one of his characters: "The American colleges and universities today are splendidly equipped institutions organized for the prevention of learning." One writer refers...
...should be Army or Navy men, who are devoting all their energies to their country's cause. In College and in war they will have received a double training in that very leadership of men. The fact that they have done well in both these fields is sufficient proof of their meriting the office to which they were elected...
Criticism of our program as a warring nation tends too often toward censure. It is the faults, the delays, and the inefficiency that are pointed out, in no uncertain amount of reason what we condemn the activities of the War Department. for the proof of investigations tends to show that those men whose duty is to manage the military preparation have not altogether justified our trust in them. Errors are pointed out and discussed, in order to have them remedied. Not from malice nor from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination...