Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...help. Thousands of girls and boys are being mobilized to collect books from householders who are too busy to take them to public libraries, and every other means will be used to make the giving of books easy. Two million books is the goal set, but with public interest really aroused, it should be far exceeded.--A. L. A. WAR SERVICE...
This year's question, "Resolved, That the Government in financing the war should obtain a larger percentage of its funds from taxes than from bonds," is of especial interest at the present time. It is essentially a Liberty Loan question and with the new April drive to sell bonds coming next month, it is a subject which is of vital importance...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...necessity of securing men and money and of devoting all our energies to the war can not obscure the need of stimulating among students an active interest in after-the-war problems. That men in the heat of the present struggle have in the most part neglected the rather indefinite yet inevitable reconstructions which must surely follow the war is only too true. That men must from now on turn their energies to the institutions of the future is equally certain. The need may be well met by the introduction of small discussion groups, led by men not only competent...
...will be attached to the reconstructive movements that must take place on an international basis at the conclusion of the war. The question of future reconstruction, as seen from several standpoints, will be placed before the members of the University in an effort to arouse among the students an interest in the inevitable rehabilitation of the industrial and political character of the nation. President Lowell will address the meeting from the theoretical point of view of the College, and will be seconded in his remarks by Dean Yeomans. In contrast to these speeches, and in support of them...