Word: periodicals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...need not only to make leaders for the future, but also to keep this place so that it may in the future be able to produce new leaders. The graduates and faculty cannot do this. It rests with you whether or not the College comes through this period with her standards unlowered. As the Archbishop of York has said: 'You must keep the flag of the College flying...
...kinds of men obnoxious in any community. Both are to be found in our universities, where they reflect a spirit for no value to their country. One is the student, about to offer his services, who regards the little remaining time which he must spend at college as a period in which he need exert no effort. The other is the student who, safe within his college walls, finds life but a daily round of routine and petty pleasure. He reads morning headlines as of passing concern. The evolutions of the day are a kind of motion picture, seen from...
...times like these nothing could be more unfortunate. We are in a period of vast changes, not only political, but in large measure of infinite social importance. One looking ahead must indeed be over-awed by the very character of those future institutions, revolutionary and beyond imagination as they are--new international status, laws of private property totally unknown, strange governmental functions, unaccustomed relations between men, a society of which we today may have scarcely any conception. A great seething and confusion is about, a melting pot, into which the ideals, the aspirations, the hopes, and the passions...
...meeting this week. Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has been granted an extended leave of absence to enable him to continue his services there for an indefinite period. He is stationed at the American Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines as assistant to the Director in charge of research problems...
...that we have a National consecration to the task remaining before us. Because of numerous workless days during the past winter, it is not advisable that the occasion should be made a holiday, be in every factory, store, mine, school and on every farm there should be a brief period during the day when everyone who is loyal to the flag should stand up and be counted. Flags should everywhere be unfurled. At 12 o'clock noon, factory whistles and church bells should send forth a volume of sound that will reach Berlin. Every band in the country will then...