Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stranger" is written by Miss Leonora Loveman, a former student in Professor Baker's English 47. Its plot concerns the clash of Hungarian customs with American ideals, the former represented in the hero, and the latter in the American heroine. A native of Hungary, Miss Loveman is well acquainted with the traditions of the Hungarian people, and her local color comes at first hand...
Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale...
...such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other's shoulders at a college fraternity reunion. Boston Herald...
...important," said Mr. Willard, "to mobilize the industrial, agricultural, transportation and labor resources of the country as well as the military and naval forces. Our Allies must be kept supplied with food, munitions and all the materials essential to our common success. To accomplish this, serious transportation problems by land and water must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels...
...qualified should prepare themselves for active service in the army or the navy, unless there is some other service of greater importance to the cause for which they are better fitted. This, I take it, is what is meant by a selective draft. It might be well if all men of proper age and not otherwise disqualified could enroll for the service of the government under a universal obligation to serve in the capacity to which they might be assigned by the public authorities. All men so enrolled should be subject to the control of the government and be liable...