Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Battery A. of the first field artillery division of the Massachusetts National Guard has issued a call for more volunteers. This organization has always been well represented by members of the University, and quite a number of undergraduates are already included in its membership. Inasmuch as the Massachusetts National Guard is at present scheduled to be called into active service on the 25th of next month, a campaign is being waged to recruit all branches up to war strength...
...large number of students who are prevented by one reason or another from entering the military or naval branches of Government service. Age, physical disqualifications--often of a minor nature--the wishes of parents, the special obligations of some students to their parents the lack of an imperative call on such men for patriotic service--all these reasons fully justify many men in holding steadily to 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...
...abolish the grain exchanges for the period of the war, we cannot stop with that. No mere legislative prohibition will solve the problem. Something of constructive character, which will do what the exchanges have been doing, is called for. That is a man-sized job! The first step should be to call leading experts in the grain trade together. For patriotic reasons, as well as to protect the trade from disaster, they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find...
...United States Civil Service has issued a call to colleges and universities throughout the country for 30 volunteers to enter its department. The existing national situation has brought about a need for an increased number of men in this division and seniors or graduate students of colleges are preferred as applicants...
...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...