Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...follow them up. Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...speak of Washington or his Farewell Address, and it is true that we have gone far since his words of warning were first spoken, but. Washington said one the thing which will be eternally true so long as nations shall exist: "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." "A just pride" would prompt us not to place our trust in the altruism of other nations, for every other nation in the world, until...
...Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11 and 12. All members of the University who have a satisfactory record in their college work are eligible to compete. Blue books are posted in the Freshman Halls, Leavitt & Peirce's, H. A. A., and in the Locker Building, and all men who expect to enter should sign up as soon as possible. The list of events includes the 40-yard dash, 300, 600, 1000-yard and mile runs, shot-put and pole-vault. All events will be with handicap and men must have taken strength tests...
...there is such special courses as they are required to do in the regular course Of course officers doing that work are credited when they return to take up their regular college work. Privates who went directly into service and had no opportunity for any study whatever could not expect to be credited for work which they had never done or attempted to do. That was not because of discrimination but the unfortunate fact that they were not able to study while they were in the service...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...