Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...young people are a little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady...
...officially announced by the military office last night that the new company officers and non-commissioned officers who are to be appointed at the end of the week will not take office until next Monday. This is in order to allow the Corps to remain under its original officers until after it has been inspected by the War Department inspector on Friday...
...sorry that we shall be unable to furnish training for men under 19 years of age, but accommodations will not allow it this summer...
...article to the Daily Princetonian; President Hibben, of Princeton, urges men who are prevented by one reason or another from entering the service of the Government, to view the national situation calmly and not allow the present military propaganda to urge them into work for which they are not adapted. President Hibben believes that there are many reasons to justify men holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or by taking up other non-military work...
...enlisted for intensive training. The work has consisted mainly of constructing combination trenches, which do not present so many difficulties in building. It was also found necessary to construct trenches of this type because the dampness of the ground where the work is being carried on did not allow any depth for digging. Sand-bag fortifications have also been erected in connection with this work...