Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Approximately 50 men have taken away application blanks for the Third Series of Officers' Training Camps, and of these 25 have been handed in properly filled out. The authorities of the Corps are most anxious that all men of age should apply immediately, so that their names may be brought up for consideration as soon as possible. The record of each man will be examined carefully and recommendations will be based on merit...
...National Service Bureau, the work of which is being carried on by the Alumni Association under C. Dunham '10, is anxious to secure the names of those men who are leaving Cambridge for the summer, but who nevertheless are anxious to be of any service which they are capable of performing when occasion arises. During the summer heavy calls are certain to be made by the Government for men to fill various vacancies, and it will be necessary to have a number of names on file comprising men of all sorts of ability and training...
...pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost its gloss. A like number of men volunteered for service under Mr. Roosevelt. Combining these two, we have four hundred thousand...
...Treasury McAdoo is coming to Boston a week from today to address a mass meeting on the Liberty Loan. He has been touring the country in order to arouse interest among individuals in the loan. The response of the West has been very satisfactory, but what he is anxious to impress on the people is the importance of subscriptions from individuals as well as from corporations. Not only will the people's money be securely invested, but a large popular subscription will indicate that the country is solidly...
...their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...