Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government. We have been criticized for going too far, for giving the students an opportunity to conceal 'slacking' and demoralization. The country is watching how you are standing up, and is asking questions. 'Can you submit to subordination, discipline, and self-control?' You might as well begin to answer these questions now as later...
...Colombians say that we violated the Treaty of 1846 when we acquired the Canal Zone in 1903. To my mind there has been no effective answer to this. The Treaty of 1846 provided that we should guarantee the neutrality of Panama and should guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia there, in return for which we were to get important commercial concessions. History shows that we repeatedly reassured Colombia that the treaty would be adhered to, and in the late' seventies we told the European powers that any interference in Colombia affairs would be considered obnoxious by the United States...
...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...
...practical efficiency will be discussed in the lecture, as well as forms of service. The latter is intended to show the many fields in which there are opportunities open. Professor Johnston will also discuss the compulsory and volunteer systems of raising an army. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...there is an opportunity for all to serve. He will also take up the compulsory system, showing how impossible a volunteer system is for raising an army of the size that is now used. He will also discuss man power and practical efficiency. After the lecture he will answer questions...