Word: eager
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Germany has complained of the starvation of women and children by the cutting off of her food supply: although knowing that such a measure is a well-recognized mode of warfare which she has herself employed in the past and is eager to employ in the present. As to the interference with importations into Holland and Denmark, it is a well-known fact that we were ourselves the first country to establish the doctrine of 'ultimate destination,' by preventing importations into the Mexican port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England...
There would be then the evenly balanced values of contact with institutions of high rank, to be gleaned from an exchange with the South, and also for our professors the great value of contact with students, in some of the South's institutions, far more eager to learn than are those Northern students who scarcely know why they are in college. The authorities would be found busy with the enduringly important first principles of education is such institutions, and not obsessed with administrative detail and petty refinements of method. This would be an experience of value to some...
...find us at war. If men await further developments before they enroll in the unit, they will in reality be just as disgraceful slackers as those who fail to volunteer in time of need. The country will want trained officers if war comes more than any number of eager raw recruits. Harvard men must forget about the sacrifice entailed during the next few months, and realize that the greater amount of serious, concentrated drill and study accomplished at the moment the greater and more valuable will be the service which Harvard can render the Nation in time of danger...
...Dramatic Club elected the following officers last evening for 1917: president, Hardinge Scholle '18, of Havana, Cuba; vice-president, Fairfield Eager Raymond '18, of Boston; secretary, Parker Kingsley Ellis '18, of Cambridge. Executive committee. Harmon Bushnell Craig '19, of Boston; Robert Tyng Bushnell '19, of Andover...
...Harvard Regiment stands almost unique as an organization springing from the entire University. It was formed on a rising tide of national consciousness, and took its strength from the loyal and eager support of a thousand men. It is noteworthy as an inspiration, as a co-operative effort towards one common ideal, and as the active expression of the keen patriotism felt by the large body of Harvard undergraduates...