Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact cards of every color of the rainbow--will be seen darting across the Yard today in the hands of graduates and undergraduates who are struggling with that great problem of the first of a year, the selection of a full set of new courses. Each man will rush from professor to faculty adviser, and from faculty adviser to Miss Monk in a wild effort to determine how many of the one-third and two-third courses that seem in vogue at present are necessary to satisfy that exacting band known as the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
...instruction will be given exclusively by officers detailed by the Army and Navy Departments. As the university possesses particular facilities in the matter of rifle ranges, trench systems, dormitories, and large new dining halls where men can be fed and housed in large groups there has been a great rush of applicants and the quotas of all units are now filled...
...human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...
Contrast this with the condition of mechanics who are giving equally of their best to win this war. They are not given even decent conditions under which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care...
...time functions. No longer can we walk in that spacious hall to pick up the Kalamazoo News. No longer can we loll about in leather chairs, smoking or studying art from historic Harvard portraits. The Living Room is a changed place. Three times a day one thousand men rush in for sustenance and it seems that more than one thousand dark figures in white coats rush about providing this sustenance...