Word: entrusting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Colonel's effort to interest the public in an army and to build up the National Guard is very laudable. A good Militia makes an excellent second line of defence. But we must not entrust our national safety to amateur policemen. If the United States needs an army at all it needs an effective one. This would include, besides the citizen soldiery an efficient well paid army of regular combat troops...
...University have been called upon to give their services to their nation. They will give them to the very death. They are called on now to render the second and the lesser duty, in person and by influence to entrust their savings to the government for its uses, that our nation, in making war may lack gold no more than men. We can believe that the response will be generous, the result inspiring...
...which disregard utterly the personal equation, are being disproved, modified, and abandoned all along the line. As regards testing fitness to do college work, we believe there is practical value in the suggestion of Professor Thorndike, that the colleges which now allow the College Entrance Board to examine applicants, entrust to it the power to credit schools on the basis of an examination of the actual success in college of candidates prepared and endorsed by that school...
...Bowen '12 played two banjo selections, followed by some very clever sleight-of-hand tricks by S. B. Blodgett. Following this came the serious question of the evening--the Senior dormitories. L. Withington, in outlining the plans, said that President Lowell and Dean Hurlbut were more than willing to entrust its solution to the class, provided sufficient enthusiasm and support were manifested. A committee representative of every interest in the class will be appointed and will welcome suggestions and advice on the subject. The present method of assignment by lot of not more than four rooms will be replaced...