Word: strained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stress and strain of war times many duties have been neglected and many opportunities passed by in the University. Attendance at Chapel comes under both of these classes. For not even the increased demand upon the time of the student is sufficient to excuse the poor showing which has been made in the last year and a half both at Sunday services and at week-day prayers...
...drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop there and not be carried into the high and grammar schools. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government, despite the strain upon it, has definitely and finally refused to allow military training in its schools. Replying to a deputation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the President of the Board of Education declared that he was with them in their position, and had "no intention of allowing anything in the nature...
...longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
...billions, England is now preparing to lay on herself this additional burden of some fourteen billion dollars for the coming year. After three and one-half years of war, the Chancellor has announced that the financial condition of the country is more than good enough to stand the added strain...
...urging of the political or social attitude. Profiteering, private gain, crushing weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less Billy Sunday salvation and more Roosevelt social justice and Wilson...