Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Craven Laycock of Dartmouth College has announced that Dartmouth will open as usual on September 20 with the customary schedule of courses and that voluntary military training will probably be continued during the college year. This course of action has been announced as a result of the statement by the faculty that all students under military age can best serve the country by continuing their college work in combination with a collegiate military course to prepare them for future service...
...best thing that a young man under age can do now, while awaiting such congressional action, is to remain at college and take the military training there. I should not advise anyone to enlist before he is actually needed, for we must not use up all of our strength at once--if this is exhausted we should have little to fall back upon. You are like substitute football players, who are of great service although not actually in the game...
...months before we entered the war the action necessary to transform the United States into an efficient and strong martial nation, should war be forced upon us, was evident. We had the lessons of ten belligerent countries through months of conflict to guide us. We knew we must have a national army raised by conscription. We knew we must conserve our food supply if we hoped to live and let other nations live. We knew we must have prohibition not only of the manufacture, but of the sale of intoxicants. Without the first measure we could not have armies commesurate...
...grain for whiskey and beer during the war. For the rest, I am inclined to the view that the Government should move cautiously, and always in co-operation with the leaders in the grain and flour trade, who alone have the knowledge required to make any Governmental action do more good than harm. It is not as easy to handle the food supply of America as it was to distribute a known supply of food to the Belgians--and that was no easy problem
...Roosevelt declared had volunteered to see service at once. The Foreign Legion has done some ugly work. It has not been pampered too much with leisure in which to grow fat between its decimating battles. There is room in that historic legion for men in whom the desire for action burns so very fiercely that they may not stay to go when our troops...