Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case of France is cited, where young men are urged to pursue their customary studies until the age for military instruction is reached...
...France, which, on the side of the Allies, has borne by far the heaviest part in the war, has insisted that her young men should pursue their ordinary courses of study until they came to the age for beginning military instruction. We cannot do better than follow that example...
...school will be identical with those established at the universities of California, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cornell University. The only requirements to enter one of these seven schools are that the men must be between 21 and 30 years of age, that they must pass physical examinations, and that each man must have received a three-years college education or its equivalent. The course will include the theory of aerial dynamics, lectures relative to aeronautics, the scientific theory of aerial flight, wind pressure, the action of internal combustion engines, and a general knowledge...
...honor fully the historic dead. We may know that other men in a later age will pay a like honor to us, if we prove worthy, and fulfill our destiny in a way not undeserving of remembrance...
...lesser possessions. They are the straws that show which way the wind blows. They are the straws which people refuse to give when in a careless mood. The straw hat is the honor of adolescence, the grace of youth, the distinction of manhood, and the folly of old age...