Word: shirking
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...This is peculiarly the function of our School, as it is the only school in the country where the college graduate may get his business training among men of like maturity in a university operating its business school solely as a graduate school. We can hardly shirk the responsibilities so presented and provision should be made at once for such growth in numbers as the situation may lead to. The school must be equipped with an adequate building and an enlarged staff...
...This is peculiarly the function of our School, as it is the only school in the country where the college graduate may get his business training among men of like maturity in a university operating its business school solely as a graduate school. We can hardly shirk the responsibilities so presented and provision should be made at once for such growth in numbers as the situation may lead to. The school must be equipped with an adequate building and an enlarged staff...
...Harvard to shirk in carrying its share of the national quota seems so preposterous as to be incredible. But to treble a week's work in one day is no easy task. It must be that two-thirds of the University are asleep to the condition of the drive; no one would willingly shirk his share of so deserving an appeal...
...millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public service. --Boston Transcript...
...faulty, but it may, if properly drawn up, abolish the curse of war. If it is worth anything at all, it is inestimably valuable to every country and citizen of the world. On this topic every college student should be thoroughly well-informed; to be ignorant is to shirk one's responsibility. Most of us have tried to follow the Peace Conference in the newspapers; but we really know very little beyond the fact that there is some sort of an argument about the Saar Vallely and that Italy is not satisfied. A great number of Harvard men have never...