Word: loving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Greek in America has taught so many students as Professor White, and no one has had greater success as a teacher. He insisted that his students should acquire the power to read Greek at sight, and he actually accomplished his object and won at the same time the love of his pupils, as is attested by the universal appellation of "Johnny Williams" affectionately applied to him. He not only taught the Greek language, but he made his students see the Greek people as human beings. There are few American colleges which have not today a course modelled on his "Greek...
...injustice being shown to many Bostonians in choosing Harvard men in preference to Bostonians, although the Harvard men might not reside here. We presume that Congress did not intend to divide appointments like it divides postoffice appropriations. The mayor's protest smells of pork. Did he make it for love of country, that better officers might lead our armies? Did he make it from some sudden, unaccountable, and overweening sense of justice...
...most pampered of all delegations, Russian Socialists will be there, sent by the people's committee, whose opinions are somewhat dubious. There they will be greeted by their German and Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish brothers-in-labor, although enemies-in-arms, and fraternize with them in the common love of that spirit of equality which transcends mere national politics. We might well send representatives from our own I. W. W. to add to the international gathering...
...whispered that the German Emperor is not adverse to the council. Perhaps he bears a deeper love to the Russian socialist than the holder of the same political tenets nearer home. However, the Emperor's interest is not necessarily the indication of a turn towards democracy...
Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...