Word: surest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aspirations, and estranged in sympathy and understanding from the burdens and sorrows of the great masses of men. There is no danger of such alienation springing from absorption in learning or in scholastic interests. The danger will come, if at all, in viewing a college course exclusively as the surest way to material success and personal gain...
...which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity...
...determining influence upon the attitude of their native country toward America. We have every reason to be grateful for Mr. Matsuno's assurance that "it is the Japanese student educated in the University who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals." The surest road to lasting international friendship is for the future leaders of the great nations to develop an attitude of mutual trust before assuming responsibility for the opinions of their fellow-countrymen. In this way prejudices and barriers may be destroyed before they become heavy with...
...individuals of those nations it has worked a like effect. It has gone further in making men fatalistic, a thing which a nation may never be. Those who had thought their hold on life was the surest, who talked boldly of fundamentals, and eternity, and destiny, now find themselves where all which before seemed sure is unsure, and the very meaning of existence is lacking...
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...