Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...
...proper assistance is given them. All farmers need more labor than they can now secure, and many need additional equipment. To supply the latter the Government should, directly or through the manufacturers, give the farmers credit to buy the labor-saving machinery they need. To fill the first want, women and men engaged in non-essential industries must be induced to undertake farm labor from patriotic motives or by virtual conscription. The failure of the campaign for voluntary aid last summer suggests the latter alternative. It should raise no more opposition than conscription to fill the armies...
...none the less warriors because we remember them with letters and gifts. They are carrying our burdens, upholding our honor-and I for one desire to express as best I can the deep personal obligation I owe the youth who has taken my place in the ranks. I want him to know my feeling. I want him to know that so far as my means and strength will allow, I intend to back him up in his cheerful and splendid service...
...Yale was superior last fall. That defeat is not a stain to be wiped out, but it remains a disappointment which we should like to forget through the result of today's game. The war has made us fairly liberal in athletics, and we now maintain publicly that we want to see the best team win. Yet we have not become so militarily impartial that we take any particular delight in having Yale win. We want the Freshmen to administer to our friends a good drubbing and we think they can do it. But they can accomplish this only through...
...They want food and peace and Germany free outwardly and inwardly. Any attempt to hold them by force is dangerous. All thoughts of an attempt to force on the people aims which prolong the war, aims for which they never fought, or to keep from the people their promised rights, can only work as disintegrating factors. That today is our greatest danger." --The Outlook...