Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker in which the lately revised American company organization has been used not merely for the call of the roster and for close-order drill but also as basis for the deployment and actual tactics of troops on the battlefield. The Harvard Regiment continues, and it continues progressive. --Boston Transcript...
Only let those who are drafted to remain remember this: As those who serve on the battlefield or in the fleet will do their work faithfully and well to their utmost so they who serve in keeping alive our heritage of knowledge must do their work faithfully and well. They are stewards to serve in place of the brave young men who have gone. From that responsibility, from that draft, there is no exemption...
More probably the explanation of this ready appreciation of an unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...
...that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded in establishing a large modern army and navy and developing her resources, the author of the editorial would not probably rest assured that she could not constitute an equally effective threat as militant Japan is often...
...should they subject themselves to the dangers of the battlefield before other citizens of equal age, privileges and responsibilities? There is no logical reason, and that is why the new army should be raised according to the principle of universal liability. The antiquated and undemocratic system of volunteer armies failed miserably in the Civil War. England has suffered needlessly and delayed final victory for the Allies because she clung to the old tradition of volunteer armies during the first year of the war. Surely this country will not be deaf to the advice of a glorious and respected ally that...