Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this last week of the University's Liberty Loan drive the undergraduates face the problem of subscribing almost twice as much as was turned in by the College in the opening week of the campaign. The amount now needed to fulfill the College's quota of $30,000 is a sum of $19,100. This means that the average subscriptions must be more per day than averaged during the week preceding vacation...
...some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable gain. A glance at the map, however, shows the importance of these events to be just the reverse. In editorials and in the presentation of all news, the glory and success of our arms is almost without exception maintained. The public is fed up on the rosy aspect of events, no matter what the truth of the situation...
...people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility of our cause" which are insincere and almost repel us from a belief in what we are fighting for. We need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines...
...Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars and cents; it goes on producing men who are some day to lead nations and peoples in the way they think best...
...inculcates respect for the human in man. His fellow-countryman, confining his attention to the undergraduate, finds our young men animated by a great loyalty of spirit, an absolute confidence in a favorite instructor, which argues well for the morale of our new army. He finds, more-over, an almost exaggerated eagerness for exactness and precision in details, which he traces to four causes: an extraordinary and admirable thirst for knowledge, the predominance of early specialization over general culture, an absence of the critical spirit, and a love for the tangible and concrete, for what can be immediately utilized...