Word: letting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given credit for a full year's work. This repeal, incidentally, has aroused considerable resentment among the students and stirred the CRIMSON to an editorial which speaks of a "lack of fulfillment of patriotic duty." . ... . But, logic or no logic, the CRIMSON is right. This is no time to let a few weeks stand in the way of the patriotic future of any man. At the moment, reputations greater than that of any professional school at are stake. The country needs army officers and every intelligent man who wants to become one should be given all encouragement. Least...
...chapel and there is little chance of it being advocated, but the present institution must not be allowed to die. An individual resolution to go to chapel at least twice a week would form a good beginning and would cause many students to start attending the morning services regularly. Let the undergraduates see for themselves whether or not the chapel is worth saving...
...Let these political reformers turn their attention more to the abolition of corrupt practices, of the factors which all thinking men would like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...
These facts dismay no one, but they challenge every man to reconsecrate himself to personal service as he did in April, 1917. Let no one give the first place in his thoughts to an after the-war future or after-the-war reconstruction until he is absolutely assured that he is doing his part in during the war service to insure the existence of an after-the-war civilization to exploit or rebuild. Our immediate and all-obscuring national aim is victory, and no man with talents to assist in its consummation can be absolved from the duty of direct...
...terms of subscription to these bonds are such that no one can plead exemption. The need of supplying our Government with the funds of fighting makes the filling of bond quotas imperative. Logic is no longer needed on this bond question. Action and quick action is in order. Let the University be among those institutions which not only recognize Government needs, but give of what they have in full measure...