Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What the final outcome of this first mobilization will be is a question no one can answer. A formal declaration of war would certainly mean a call for more volunteers, but whatever developments occur the attitude of Harvard undergraduates towards the present critical situation should be sane. Naturally every man wants to serve his country, and fulfill his military duty towards her immediately. Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts...
Should a general call to arms come, Harvard undergraduates, following the example of former generations at similar crises, would unflinchingly respond to the nation's summons. At present let our attitude be influenced by Major Henry Lee Higginson's advice of two years ago, "Keep your shirts...
...This is not merely a matter of serving Columbia graduates and showing to them some of the loyalty which they are expected to manifest toward the University; it is also a matter of serving the public by placing in positions that call for responsible leadership college graduates who are competent to the task. This is not an age for rule of thumb methods and haphazard guessing about our life work. It is an age of scientific examination into facts and conditions and the deliberate, foresighted preparation of men and women for handling specific problems. The task of vocational guidance...
Although the regular enlistments for the Machine Gun Company, Eighth Infantry, M.V.M., closed last night, any men who still desire to enlist may call at the Cambridge Armory, Massachusetts avenue, opposite the new M. I. T. buildings, this evening at 7.45 o'clock. Arrangements for late enrolling can be made at that time so that the men can go with the company to the training camp at Fort Ethan Allen in July...
Three more men are needed for the Machine Gun Company, Eighth Infantry, M.V.M., and any who wish to enlist should call at 52 Mount Auburn street, where a member of the committee will keep office hours from 10 to 1 o'clock today. Anyone unable to call then should go to the Cambridge Armory tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock, when enrolments will be taken if the three places are not already filed...