Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history. Five times before, as dependent colonies, as a small republic, as a great Power, it has raised the standard of battle. Each time it was goaded to humiliation before it was willing to enter on the final and most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right thinking man might say we have been over-hasty...
Members of the University are especially needed for the fourth class of the Naval Reserve Force--the Naval Coast Defence Reserve. This division is a Naval District proposition. The First District is the local one. It extends from Eastport, Me., to Chatham on the Cape. Captain Rush is in charge of this district and has power to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate of his naval district. This embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers...
...many of them have been ready to rush into the headlines at every opportunity, forgetting that the dignity of their profession calls for soberness in thought and restraint in language. Harvard has furnished some conspicuous examples of this indiscretion on the part of teachers to whom our national declarations of neutrality seem to have meant nothing whatever. This may be due in part to the fact that college professors are usually men of strong convictions and in part to the fact that not a few of them have a kindly feeling toward Germany by reason of their years of study...
...Seniors should get their caps and gowns at the Co-operative immediately to prevent a rush at the last moment. Class officers are requested to order their gowns before 6 o'clock tomorrow. 1917 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...report of the all Technology undergraduate preparedness committee, as presented at a mass meeting of the students yesterday, advises against hasty rush to join the army in case of war. Looking at the matter as a problem in engineering, the committee finds that the best service technically trained men can render their country would be not to join the ranks and fight in the trenches, but to hold their training and knowledge in reserve for the engineering problems of a great army. The committee takes Germany and England as examples, since the former refrained from calling out the undergraduates...