Word: help
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conduct a brief financial campaign in the University and Graduate Schools. The amount collected in this, together with that of the smaller campaign held last autumn, was $4,690, a total greater than even last year's subscription of $4,346.44. Such results are very gratifying, but one cannot help feeling that, if the number of contributions indicates the amount of interest and sympathy in the student body for the work of the Association, there ought to be 2000 instead of 550 names on the list of those subscribing. Another year special emphasis should be placed, it seems...
...earnestly recommend Mr. Lindsey's explanation of the War Risk Insurance difficulty to all members of the University returned and returning, believing that it will help to clear up many of the doubts which still persist on the subject...
...join the Merchant Marine are first given preliminary training as uniformed apprentices, either in the deck or in the engineer department of a training ship to help them find their "sea legs," before going aboard a merchant vessel. This training is given on board large, well equipped ships, supplied with every accessory to healthful living. The training is intensive for two months, with a wholesome system of instruction and exercise lasting eight hours a day, and with proper intervals for rest and recreation. The apprentices are paid $30 a month, and given a uniform...
...wanting to send over to Russia a man who can help those who are seeking council, men who have an elementary knowledge of agriculture, sanitation and dairy work. We do not need a man who can project anything so much as a man who can teach the simple things that he already knows. What the Russians need is clean, healthy boy-life. It would mean a sacrifice perhaps of a year or two of a man's life, yet I can imagine no work from which he could reap greater rewards. The unselfish point of view...
...party leaders, and is often influenced by personal likes and dislikes. His prejudices once formed, he doesn't want to read arguments or hear speeches to the contrary. But if he can go to a meeting where his own leaders are arrayed against an intelligent opposition, he cannot help hearing facts which will set him thinking for himself...