Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your editorial in today's issue on "Professors and Patriotism" is of deep interest to all Democrats. You deprecate the much "shouting" of the "blind partisans" among our college faculties. So far, so good. Then in some curious manner you imply that only arrant pro-German fanatics have so spoken! Last evening Professor Ellery C. Stowell of Columbia University, speaking at the Labor Temple, New York City, said in his address: "The opinion of the people in this country as to the course of its rulers makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that...
Concurrent with the sailing for France of another Harvard section of the American Ambulance Corps comes the report that colleges throughout the country are manifesting an active interest in the work of the great war. Units are being organized for the American Ambulance Field Service, volunteers are being sent to do Y. M. C. A. work at the front, ambulances are being donated and funds raised for distribution in war-stricken Europe. These are only a few examples of the interest taken in the war by universities of America...
...inaugurated at Cornell toward the organization of a section in the American Ambulance Field Service. It is planned to furnish equipment for the unit and support for men who will volunteer their services. The committee in charge has scheduled entertainments, motion pictures and lectures with a view to arousing interest among the students...
Messrs. Roger Amory 10 and R. P. Danner '13 write respectively on "Enthusiasm in Flying" and "Harvard Men Help Tommy in Mesopotamia." Though Mr. Amory gives us a satisfactory treatise, it is marred by occasional crudities in composition. It fails to arouse live interest in the reader. Mr. Danner does better, though he too is occasionally careless in his writing. Also, why does he call it "Harvard Men--"? There is absolutely no mention of a University organization or even of individual Harvard men. However, despite the article's shortcomings it is full of genuine interest and holds the attention...
...track team at present is in a predicament similar to the one just described. Nothing more than a live interest on the part of both undergraduates and graduates is needed to obviate the present difficulties. No other sport gives one so many thrills or has such moments of tense excitement as track. Whether it is an indoor meet or the intercollegiates at the Stadium, the spectators are assured at least one heart-breaking finish or a battle royal between two pole-vaulters. The imperative need today is a greater and more active support for the team. There are plenty...