Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...liability to himself and to the University whose advantages he simply prevents someone else from obtaining. The win-the-war need for moral effort is past, but the need for moral effort exists as strongly as before. The student who merely aims to "get by" is a slacker in times of peace no less than in times...
...remaining group of undergraduates--those who may plan comfortable holidays at home or away from it--merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend...
...suffering. It is in urgent need of money. These two facts constitute what must be an irresistible appeal to everyone. There is no student who cannot save enough for his contribution. The man who fails to give something, as much as he can, but at least something, is a slacker of the first order. These are plain words, but they represent a plain truth. We are living in a time which demands giving as long as one cent remains for man to give...
...work this summer. Never have the opportunities been so plentiful or so pressing. The need for labor on the farms and in the shipyards is of equal value with the need of trained men for the Army. Any one who does not render help in some way is a slacker no less surely than the draft resister or the deserter...
...next month and a half the man who fails to make the most of his time not only fails his country but minimizes the efforts of his fellows. Military training means coordination. Every man must pull at the same wheel to the limit of his ability. The term slacker is too mild for him who is found wanting...