Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...where their services are most wanted. We need in deadly earnestness food for our armies and the armies of our allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work, middling fair constituents of the rank and file...
Although we may feel it our duty to help drive the iron plough of war, we can seek, by our attendance, to prevent it entirely uprooting the fine flower of culture...
...first impulse of young men to seek action wherever there is possibility of service with danger or excitement to give it zest. The ultimate uselessness of such early service is patent. The lessons of England, the lessons of our past, our own wisdom in the true needs of national security, all show that such hasty enlistment means in the end only weakness...
...stated in clear, manly terms the only honorable stand that this country can take. We congratulate him upon his firm declaration and pledge our heartiest support to following principles so well expressed by him. "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations can make them...
With the probability of a declaration of war by Congress early next month, and the possibility of actual hostilities before that time, it is natural that the members of the University should seek the quickest and surest means of offering their services to the country. This is the object of the formation of the new Norton-Harjes Ambulance Units. To those men who have had little military training or whose services are not actually required in the military forces or this country, the opportunity of rendering valuable and effective aid to France in her war against Germany should have...