Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Probably a dollar has never been as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund," said Harold Braddock, director for the Library War Council. "Not only will each dollar do its full share toward the construction of the library and branch buildings, the installation of tables and chairs in the reading rooms, and the provision of expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in circulation until worn out, and then will help furnish a new one to replace the old one. Every dollar in the fund will prove itself 100 per cent. efficient...
...reflect the spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion to the nation's needs which inspires and guides the University today. What price the country must pay in the months to come for the ideals now at stake no one can foresee; but that 1912 will bear hear full share of the cost, whatever it may prove to be, no one for one moment can question. May her record be a brilliant and proud one when next her members gather for a class reunion. The class is indebted to a committee of classmates in New York City, who had largely completed...
...latest reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...useless to say that Oregon or Arizona or Oskaloosa, Oklahoma, have failed to subscribe their full share. New England is not accustomed to being meted according to the standards of the provinces. Her standards are her own. She has promised that they would be high. They are not high...
...thorough equipment of the army and navy, but it is at present the chief indication to the Allies and to Germany of how thoroughly this country is in the war. It is also the only way in which the majority of the people of this country can fulfill their share of the burden that the nation as a whole must bear. To give further opportunity for contributing to the loan, every bank in Cambridge and Boston will be open until 9 o'clock tonight to receive subscriptions...