Word: particular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What sort of measures can best be undertaken is not easily decided. Each institution, knowing its own position, must devise the emergency action best suited to that particular situation. Princeton, for instance, will pay off part of its deficit by gifts from alumni, while Pennsylvania and Rutgers are considering co-education. Whereas one university is helped by the kindness of graduates to make good the loss, the other two plan to eliminate the cause by increasing enrolments. Like all plans, this must first be tried before its success can be determined. Radical curtailment of expenses, if that is possible...
...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
...consecutive season a winter class in general athletics for Freshmen will be organized during the next few days. The class is intended primarily for men who are not candidates for any of the organized teams, and it therefore aims to give general physical training rather than proficiency in any particular branch of sport. No member of 1921, however, is debarred from joining the class. Although there is no expense attached to membership in this voluntary organization, the best coaching is afforded the members...
...never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have men who speak of nothing save them. War is even more highly specialized than modern industry in the heads of efficiency experts...
...trip involved several incidental features which were matters of great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised...