Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past that their services have been especially commended by the State Committee. More men are needed for this work, however, and anyone wishing to enter into the active campaign should attend the meeting this afternoon. Direct benefit is derived from active work such as stump speaking in a campaign like the present one, for one meets the public in a different aspect than he has been accustomed to, and gains facility in public speaking...
...true that he won neither great wealth nor high office, and that in his own commonwealth he saw many win both who were in no way superior to him in ability or character, like his arch-enemy Benjamin F. Butler, but 'the wise years decide.' Weighed in the true scales could any fortune, however large, or any office, however high, could anything that he won for himself outbalance the unselfish service which he rendered to others? Is self-sacrifice failure? Shall we measure success by what a man gets, or by what he gives? Shall we forget the immortal words...
...should like through your columns to appeal to men of Harvard, on behalf of the field service of the American Ambulance in France. We have, at present, considerably more than 100 motor ambulances given and driven by Americans, who love and admire France, and who want, in this way, to express their friendship for France and to assist in preserving for the world the lives and genius of her people. These cars are grouped in sections of 20 or 30 each, which are officially attached to the several French armies and are in service at the front. The drivers...
...Within the next few weeks we shall need for our field service about 20 additional volunteers who are good motor car drivers. We should like to have such men enlist for a longer period, but we will accept enlistments for four months. The American Ambulance will furnish the automobiles and repairs, the French army furnishes food and lodging. The men must, themselves, provide for their own transportation to and from France, their own uniforms and their incidental expenses, which need not amount to more than $10 or $15 per month, and the aggregate expenditure for four months, including transportation both...
...dangers which may be avoided and the mistakes which are only too often due to ignorance, several graduates of the University have prepared a pamphlet, which is being mailed to all Freshmen today, containing among other articles extracts from Dean Briggs' "Routine and Ideals." To read this article is like having an interview with Dean Briggs himself. His sympathetic knowledge of a student's problems gained from a genuine warm-hearted interest in his welfare gains at once the confidence of the reader and imparts a special significance to his words. Parents as well as students will find the article...