Word: planting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well as we know how. But remember, all our support, moral and physical, comes from those who remain behind in the States. Try to impress all this on the young hopefuls in whose brains you are endeavoring to plant the seeds of English literature...
...good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard of the average American magazine, altogether irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer...
Some of the men come from the regular navy, other have given up professions and positions in civil life to enlist. The University is only too willing to meet them half-way, to give them its plant and facilities for teaching, its instructors and its experience. The Cruft laboratory, the Gymnasium, Pierce, Perkins, and Memorial Halls are already at their disposal. Our athletic field and equipment is theirs to use when they have time. If there is anything more that we can give them, we will do so gladly. It is an honor to the University to consider them...
...that we see but one thing at a time, and follow that with our whole hearts. We found we needed officers; therefore we should all go into intensive training. We found we needed food; therefore we should plough our public parks, and spade up our front lawns, and plant radishes in our window boxes...
...amount expended for the library goes down steadily. The physical plant necessary to care for the increased number of students has been built and is kept going at the expense of the teaching force and of the library, at the expense, therefore, of the students and of the profession for which they are being trained...