Word: need
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...convinced that the need for the humanizing, unselfish work of the Red Cross is greater today than ever before. The broadcast universal membership to be gained in the present roll-call will establish a living force for the development of a cleaner, healthier life, which is translating patriotism into action and service. This is a plea for humanity and a practical investment for the future."--Dr. Livingston Farrand of the Red Cross...
During the fall season the training tables have attracted so many football men that the membership of the club predominates with members of the football squad. From the sentiment expressed by the undergraduates in regard to the need and advantages of such a club, the Executive Committee feels that it is filling a big gap in the undergraduate life and hopes that in the future even greater advantages and possibilities for its usefulness will be presented. In addition to a lounging room and training table for upperclassmen, the Freshmen have theirs, also, so that all undergraduates are represented...
Some say that with the League of Nations we shall not need more than a small standing army. They see the world forever freed from wars, and arbitration steeling all disputes. But even if it was within the power of the League to bring us to such an Utopian state, we have never tried it out; we do not know that it will even help to end armed strife. As long as there is anything to be desired in the world men will fight for it, whether in the courts or on the battlefield. And how are we to tell...
Tonight is Roosevelt night at the Union. There Harvard men can listen to intimate anecdotes of Harvard's most illustrious graduate from the lips of his associate and biographer, Mr. Thayer. This meeting will bring home the need of the nation today for the man who had the courage to say during a period of a threatened coal strike: "We will mine coal if the whole army...
...constitution, he is one of those gentlemen who sit on the safety valve of social unrest and compress the steam of "radicalism" into real revolution. A consideration of problems, not a contemptuous labelling of all bubbling of the cauldron as "radical outbursts," is perhaps what we most need...