Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Beware of the swarthy gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come...
Some of the men come from the regular navy, other have given up professions and positions in civil life to enlist. The University is only too willing to meet them half-way, to give them its plant and facilities for teaching, its instructors and its experience. The Cruft laboratory, the...
In the glamor and excitement that necessarily attends the opening of a great University, men in every class and department may overlook the sphere into which the college man has been cast by the great war. Leaders in the nation's military and administrative work have urged that, wherever possible...
The nation has seen the power and the glory of empire, as other nations, some greater and some less, have seen it for centuries, and united it is willing to give the very limit of its strength for empire. It is Persia risen again, without the wisdom of Persia, who...
The temptation was obvious for these men, accustomed to action and eager for the utmost service in the consecrated cause of their native land, to feel that in training a group of unskilled young men here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training...