Word: looks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From newspaper reports that the Liberty Loan is not succeeding as we all wish it were, it behooves everyone to look about for means of changing the situation. I wish to propose a means whereby the government will be aided, the college will be benefited, and the spirit of the Class of 1921 placed where no one can doubt its sincerity...
...done more than lay buildings waste. It has for the moment at any rate distorted our standards. It has compelled us to look too much for immediate efficiency rather than permanent utility...
With the War and the World Series going on simultaneously, the American public is somewhat confused; it doesn't know which interests it more. To look or not to look at the sporting page, that is the question. The people of this nation have long been accustomed to make the week of the World Series an informal holiday when business, family, and other conventionalities become matters of secondary importance...
...measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past, if we are to conserve our personal resources, and we shall have to draw one big sum the first of the month and carry it around in our socks...
...attitude of the undergraduate will have to change from a mild prodigal son type to that of a careful planner. Otherwise he will miss much of the pleasure which his monthly dividends from home are able to give him. In its performances he may look upon this as a most disagreeable task. A great many fathers, however, are going to rejoice secretly that a government measure can do good in some respect, even though they first viewed it as confiscation...