Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three years, enough to form a battalion of four batteries. In view of the splendid showing made by Harvard men at the summer camps--a showing better than was made by either Yale or Princeton,--it is perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist,--a number which seems reasonable since the military drill will in no way interfere with scholastic work or athletics...
...establish more cordial relationships between members of the University and the University officers and their wives. To accomplish this end, members of the College and the graduate schools will act as ushers, and a committee of the wives of the Faculty will receive. The Student Council wishes to call the attention of all members of the University to this opportunity to come in contact with those most prominent and most interested in the affairs of the College and the graduate schools...
...designed to curtail athletic schedules and expenses, has created a sensation at Cornell. The student body is highly enthusiastic over the success of the football team and objects strenuously to such recommendations as the abolishing of the pre-Thanksgiving trip to Atlantic City. Plans have already been made to call the attention of alumni bodies all over the country to the proposed program...
Secret diplomacy in its worst form, coupled with the inflated preparedness of the type called "adequate" brought on this war in Europe. If the people of this nation knew the forces behind this wild call for "adequate" preparation, this false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running...
These facts and many more which one could find on examination expose the fallacy of our ability to produce a million soldiers whenever the President calls for them. If the call should go out today, we would do well to have a million soldiers in 1918. No doubt our resources are great and our patriotism unbounded, but an untrained citizen is not a soldier as was proved by the first three years of the Civil...