Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement that Dane Hall is to be torn down can only create mixed emotions within us. We are glad that a skeleton will be put to rest, but we hate to see the passing of an old-timer, especially one who used to welcome signed checks with such avidity...
...cease with their discharge from the hospital or even with the payment of their war insurance. We are moved to assist them to start an active and useful life from new beginnings not only by ordinary humanity, but by the confidence with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made for the education and employment in the simpler mechanical processes of those not fitted for purely intellectual occupations. Manual training schools and manufacturing establishments, whose careful organization of labor on a large scale enables them permanently to employ...
...University men in the New Lecture Hall last evening. "I am glad because it shows that you want to know what is going on and wish to be ready to take part in the struggle. I suppose that nobody doubts that we went into the war unprepared. Let us hope that when the war ends we will not be unprepared for peace...
...first problem for us to face is that of the war itself. We are just entering upon it. Our allies have been through it all for several long years. The true sacrifice is not yet ours, but it will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...
...enough of flamboyant stories of what we are going to do; the talking should come afterwards. The more our hopes violently fluctuate, the less are we inclined to believe in the ultimate hope of destruction of Prussian power, and a spirit of discouragement is likely to grow up. Let us stick to the facts of the task ahead of us, not indulge in wild dreams that take our energies off our work...