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This is as it should be, for $19,000 remains to be subscribed by undergraduates during this last week, if our quota is to be filled. The terms of subscription to these bonds are such that no one can plead exemption. The need of supplying our Government with the funds of fighting makes the filling of bond quotas imperative. Logic is no longer needed on this bond question. Action and quick action is in order. Let the University be among those institutions which not only recognize Government needs, but give of what they have in full measure...
...examinations. Many doubtless hope to escape failure because of the leniency of a patriotic instructor. But it must be remembered that the Faculty is not going to be so sentimental as to let violations of this sort occur. It is on the watch for those who would plead necessity as the reason for their own backwardness...
...many times a day or week do we plead, "No time for reading"? Of course, it goes without saying that we can't have something for nothing in this world, and if we could, it wouldn't be worth much. Every day we pay some sort of coin for the things we want--and that without a murmur! If reading is one of the things we want most--well, just between us, don't you think the fellow who begs "No time for reading!" usually means "No inclination"--whether he knows that is what he means or not? Daily Illini
...body politic of this community by virtue of our substantial interest in learning all that Cambridge and Massachusetts, as well as Harvard, have to teach us. We are native Americans, mostly of New England ancestry, easily adjusted to the conditions about us; surely we can with justice plead for recognition as qualified to take part in the civic life of this our city. And we might have picked up an occasional idea about street lighting, sidewalks, paving, city managers, budgets, etc., in some Missouri town, which could be of service here. Not as inhabitants and qualified voters of Arizona...
...teaching should so long have been one of the most poorly paid professions, but that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left. Christian Science Monitor...