Word: drain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hardly to be dispensed with, but many more are still engaged in work at Washington and may not return for many months. While deeply conscious of the invaluable services which they have performed during the war we feel that their continued absence from Cambridge is possibly an unnecessary drain on the effectiveness of University Administration. Would it not be possible to recall some of them from positions at present less important to fill the places of those who, like Professor Haskins, cannot be spared over there...
Class Day Week is to assume the proportions which characterized this celebration before the ascendency of Mars. With the general exodus of undergraduates and the continual drain upon the College's resources by war needs, it has for two years been but the "shealed peascod" of former glory. But already the Class of 1919 is planning memorable festivities for this June...
...large and ever increasing number of the faculty who are engaged in the many ramifications of war work at the request of the Government. As the exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted by the necessities of war work. And from the faculty already minus...
...suspend its academic activities during the war is alone of immense advantage. We have seen the English and French universities go down during the last four years until now they are mere shells of institutions. Theirs was a noble service at the beginning of the great struggle, but the drain on the attendance has been an ineradicable misfortune. During the past year the American universities seemed to be moving toward the same end. Men knew that, barring a change in policy, the new draft age would not only impair a great part of collegiate usefulness, but would actually threaten...
...year of war has come and gone. The American people have felt its burdens and now bear them with each day's increase. They know that they are engaged in a struggle which is sapping every energy and which is beginning an unlimited drain upon their every resource. Their response has been not only sufficient, but has been given in the spirit of willingness which is the great source of this nation's strength. This week they are called upon to contribute to the American Red Cross. That they will not be found wanting can only be assured through...