Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
During the year 1916-17, the use of books at the Widener Library was greater in every respect than that of the previous year, according to the annual report of W. C. Lane '81, Librarian. After April, 1917, however, the increasing interest in military training told heavily upon the use of library books, and the figures for those months lowered the average for the year to some slight extent...
...stack were not properly equipped for use until February. A comparison month by month between the two years shows a marked increase during the fall and winter months of 1916-17 as compared with the same months of 1915-16, but from April on, with the more active interest in military affairs there was a distinct dropping off in all figures even
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...left in ourselves. Profiteering, for example, is the chief representative among us of the German idea,--the very thing we are fighting against. There is probably less profiteering in America in this war than in any other we have ever fought, and more fine examples of sacrifice of personal interest on the part of large business. What we have chiefly got to do is to clear out the last remnant of the old evil. This can best be done by treating a few conspicuous examples as traitors are treated...