Word: restful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floating the Third Liberty Loan, so far as the University is concerned. The early stages of our campaign were held during the first part of April, a time when checks for the current months were not completely made over to persistent creditors. Then followed a week of much needed rest. And now the undergraduates return from their homes with numerous pecuniary gifts from their families, for vacation seems to be a giving time. Thus the final week of the University drive, which starts to-day, finds students with well-lined purses...
...prose, Mr. Hill's "Repatriation Service in France" lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author...
Some of this inadequacy in results can be traced to the executive inefficiency which is inevitable in such a rapidly expanding business as the United States Government. The rest must be attributed to the people as a whole. The very lavishness with which the Government pays for its wants has been a brake on individual production. Large classes of labor and groups of manufacturers have become impressed with the notion that they are indispensable. High wages have made it appear to many workers that they are fulfilling a patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices...
Whatever the purposes of the present movement, whether it be the overaweing of European neutrals, or the strengthening of the German morale, or what not, we may rest our faith in the impregnability of our arms. If this is the heralded offensive, we welcome it as an opportunity to inflict great losses upon the enemy and to bring about a new alignment in the West which may well permit successes for us in the near future. If it is but a feint, we will continue to be watchful for the time when the German lines may feel the irresistible force...
Arthur Durham Platt 2L, of Portland, Ore., and George Edward Osborne 2L, of Berkeley, Cal., have been elected president and treasurer of the University Law Review for 1918-19. The rest of the board of editors will be chosen next fall on the basis of scholastic standing made during the present college year...