Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Swindling under these conditions comes close to treason. And if a foreign grocer is deprived of his rights to sell because he charges a few cents in excess of the legal rate for sugar, the capitalist who turns sorely needed funds into private pockets must not expect to retain his power over finance. Loyalty and service are the tests or survival...
...large expense involved in running the camp it was decided that it would be unwise to add such a large deficit to the University's treasury. The summer work, was also abandoned last year because of the war for the first time in 25 years, but the authorities expect that it will be resumed after the war, when conditions have changed sufficiently to justify its maintenance...
...York City, made up of nearly 5,000 graduates of all ages, may fairly be considered the most representative body of Harvard men, associated in a single organization, as members no longer of the University but of society at large. It is neither too much not too little to expect of this body of men what is to be expected of the "living Harvard force"--roughly, some 40,000 graduates and former members of the University--as a whole. In other words, one of about every four members of the club is engaged in some form of service directly related...
...become mixed up with railroads and the manufacture of necessary articles to be checked thereby, this board will see to it that industry works in harmony with transportation. Even though a regulator may have managed very efficiently some branch of our war activities, yet we cannot with any reason expect him also to have adjusted this to the plans of all the other controllers. That is a task which requires a supreme council. Only by establishing one can we obtain that unity of effort which at present is lacking...
...failed to check the coal consumption sufficiently, drastic action is resorted to. Whether the University is directly affected, we do not yet know. Some branches certainly will be, and it is quite possible that the entire College may have holidays thrust upon it. In such an event we expect a long weekend, fewer classes, and a confused schedule. The inconvenience created would certainly be considerable, yet necessity may be greater. Harmful as such action is, however, it seems the lesser of two evils. If we are forced to suspend work temporarily, we do so that more disastrous restrictions...