Word: luke-warm
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...point on which the present organization may be sharply criticized is its failure to convey an adequate impression of the broad general significance of all social service to prospective workers. The undergraduate--usually an underclassman--goes to the committee's open meeting in the fall, and hears nothing but luke-warm banalities from amateurs. Instead of vital information from recognized authorities, he is given unintelligent generalities by local celebrities in other fields. The meeting degenerates into a series of amiable but perfunctory talks, and the enormous reservoir of idealistic enthusiasm that moved the audience to attend is left utterly untapped...
...fact, nevertheless, that men go to law school for the purpose of learning how to steer corporations as near the edge as possible without going over. The audience showed its displeasure in his remarks and he with the sarcastic irony in which he delighted, said. 'The applause seems luke-warm--I repeat,'--and reiterated his former statement...
...present case, however, the President should not have to extend himself far, for the burden of proof appears to rest entirely upon Governor Pinchot. There is no reason to believe that the President is luke-warm in his Prohibition sentiments nor that he has abetted any relaxation in federal enforcement. The difficulty appears to be that although a majority of the population of the country favor Prohibition, a large and compact minority in one section--along the Atlantic seaboard--not only disapprove of but openly defy this law. When enforcement officers and even the judiciary in this "wet" belt...
...remains to point out the advantages of such a system. First! all nominations being made by petition, each candidate will be on an equal basis with the other nominees. Second: because all groups can be represented on the ballot, interest will change from a luke-warm sixty per cent to an active eighty or ninety per cent at least. Third: since anyone has an equal opportunity for nomination no one can give as a reason for not voting that he does not know the nominees. With such a system not only would practically everyone know at least...
...members of the visiting team will in all probability arrive, are not hard to conceive. I know of specific instances in which valuable men have been lost to Harvard because of lack of hospitality. This is much less true now than formerly, but whereas our reception is now called "luke-warm", it was not very long ago that it might have appropriately been called "cool...