Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supplying officers for the army to be mobilized under a selective draft bill was admirable. I am informed that practical difficulties have arisen preventing the plan from being fully carried out, but I have no doubt that the effect of the impetus already given will result in the effort of all college men to strive by hook or crook to fit themselves for commissions in the Reserve Officers' Corps. The work at Harvard, of course, meets the commendation of every one who wishes to see a spirit of patriotism united with a capacity for effective help. I do not doubt...
...conducive to raising the level of one's feelings. Perhaps at no time in her history has our nation so needed all the latent patriotism that exists. Learning the words of our national hymn may be a valuable contribution in these critical times, and this bit of memory effort is not too much to ask of apparently patriotic citizens...
...always be reasonably certain what a Westerner's idea of Harvard will approximate. But never do we realize just how far their derision will go until we read something of the nature of Mr. Carpenter's effort. This much we may say: The most of it is such arrant and superficial satire as to lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter...
...time has now come when all such nonsense should stop. The President of the United States has asked that a state of war with Germany be declared and there must be no more talk of neutrality. The obvious and paramount duty of every loyal American is to bend every effort towards aiding the Government in preparing for war against a nation which has issued a challenge "to all mankind...
...first to see the advisability of forming a school here, the greatest pressure ought to be used to convince it that most efficient results can be obtained with the training school established on the spot. Until this is brought about we can only wait and bend every personal effort towards making ourselves well-trained officers...