Word: planting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scope in a man's profession constitute a restless though a "silent" partner. For example, let a man who in his boyhood has been devoted to outdoor sports think twice before he chooses an utterly sedentary career, or one who was early impressed and fascinated by the miracles of plant and animal life meditate carefully before he rushes into the more austere delights and the dazzling emoluments of Indic philology. This is in order to secure the participation and co-operation of the whole man in this our journey through life...
...active campaign to enroll in some part of farm, shipyard or munition plant work all students in the University who do not attend a summer military camp was launched yesterday by Morris Gray, secretary of the Student Employment Bureau of the University. Personal letters explaining the importance of the work and the need for men were sent, together with enrolment blanks, to all members of the University. Details in regard to the positions can not be published for two weeks yet, but ample remuneration will be afforded the workers. All men who do not intend-to enter...
...they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might. To plant the flowers and the joys of life again we must not lose from our hands those blue birds of happiness--poetry, painting, and philosophy. Michigan Daily...
Finally, action to be effective must be immediate. Farmers will not plant this spring the crops we need unless they are first given definite assurance of the men and machinery to harvest them...
...institutions can, of course, be closed, and the students, dismissed. But unless this is done for a considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories...