Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Keep that attitude as your cherished capital, but wait--wait till those who are entrusted with the destinies of your country call on you to contribute it. By so doing, in the first place, you will be carrying out the wishes of your country. Certain men have been assigned the heavy task of organizing the resources of the nation for this tremendous struggle. They know where men are to be found, and what are each man's qualifications and abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week...
...enlistment will constitute the student a member of the Army of the United States, liable to active duty at the call of the President. It will, however, be the policy of the government not to call the members of the training units to active duty until they have reached the age of 21, unless urgent military necessity compels and earlier call...
...cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate reaches the age of twenty...
...halls has come up to snuff. There ought to be a hundred men out in each one every Monday, instead of the paltry 20 or 30 who have been attending. The result is that the jubilee is in the balance. It will be necessary to call the whole thing off unless the class immediately evinces more interest, shows more spirit. Each man must do his share. Forty-five minutes of song once or twice a week is not too much of a drain, even on the time of the busiest men; and these meetings are really more fun than work...
...undergraduates and it would, I think, be concurred in by most older men who have thought much about the conduct of the war. At present there is no urgent demand for men under age. There are as many men on the draft lists as the War Department can call out and use in the immediate future; but if students are to follow the advice of the CRIMSON there will soon be a lack of educated young men coming...