Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Contrary to off-hand opinion, the German movement in the West has taken on the aspect of a supreme effort toward victory. Prepared on lines hither-to unparalleled, and executed with an energy, power and sacrifice of human lives scarcely credible, the German offensive not only seriously threatens the British army, but offers the possibility of the defeat of our cause...
...anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style." The undergraduate body should know fully whether or not such letters are "signed and more than persiflage." And the undergraduate body is entitled to know the truth about the Advocate affair, even after the long and almost successful effort of one editor of the CRIMSON to keep it dark...
...President of the University from 1869 to 1909, a period of 40 years. Time has confirmed the wisdom of his doctrines and the University today is still dominated by the influence of the president who nearly 50 years ago first instilled in the University his democratic spirit of individual effort directed to the future...
...learn something of the importance which will be attached to the reconstructive movements that must take place on an international basis at the conclusion of the war. The question of future reconstruction, as seen from several standpoints, will be placed before the members of the University in an effort to arouse among the students an interest in the inevitable rehabilitation of the industrial and political character of the nation. President Lowell will address the meeting from the theoretical point of view of the College, and will be seconded in his remarks by Dean Yeomans. In contrast to these speeches...
...Both are to be found in our universities, where they reflect a spirit for no value to their country. One is the student, about to offer his services, who regards the little remaining time which he must spend at college as a period in which he need exert no effort. The other is the student who, safe within his college walls, finds life but a daily round of routine and petty pleasure. He reads morning headlines as of passing concern. The evolutions of the day are a kind of motion picture, seen from the comfortable chair of self-complacency. Both...