Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college undergraduate has the same question to face. He may be unable to make any large purchase, and may, instead, offer his own services to the government as soldier or sailor. But, where it is possible, let him make the effort to do what he can; however little, and thus show that he is alive to the situation. The Liberty Loan is the first big American war enterprise--he cannot afford to sit back placidly, and shift this financial burden onto the shoulders of his fellow-citizens...
Economists are generally agreed that speculation normally performs some very vital functions. The economist does not defend monopolistic speculation--the effort to "corner" the market. Such efforts--more likely to be successful in the stock market than in the grain market, because the capital required to control a corporation is vastly less than that required to control the world's stock of a great staple grain--have been made, and have at times had demoralizing effects. When made, they should be punished mercilessly. It does not appear, however, that monopolistic combinations by speculators dealing in "futures" is the cause...
...commissioned officers will be appointed for the purposes of drill and administration in the Corps; but the members of the Corps must remember that the mere attainment of cadet rank should not be the main ambition of members of the Corps during this training. It will take the utmost effort, mental and physical, of every man to perfect himself in the short time available to be a leader of even a small body of troops...
Preparations for the University's reception of General Joffre, M. Viviani, and the other members of the French mission tomorrow afternoon are nearing completion, and every effort is being made to make their short visit to Cambridge a memorable one. In addition to exercises in Sanders Theatre and Memorial Hall, the French envoys will review the R. O. T. C. of the University in the Stadium, where an impressive ceremony will be held. The two first battalions, augmented by a hundred men from the four provisional companies, will participate in the parade...
...unnecessary there to point out that all men who are not physically prevented from presence in their place in line then owe it as their first and simple duty to be there. That is due in justice to the Commandant of the Corps, whose months of effort will culminate, in the minds of the public, in this open display; in duty to the Corps, whose success is the success of each of its members; and in honor to our notable visitor, for whom our utmost honor is none too great...