Word: calls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...closed last night. Fortunately the seriousness of the task was enlivened by heated arguments, impassioned sallies on the part of the opposition and semi-humorous retorts by the frenzied militarists who have suddenly appeared in our midst. The response of the members of the University to the imperative call for trained officers has been splendid. The final enrolment in the training unit is well over a thousand men which means that the same number have been willing to give double the amount of time required for the Regiment of last year to the work of training themselves to be officers...
...rapidly taking shape. The usual Southern trip for the University team will be made during the spring vacation and will include New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk and Richmond. J. S. Pfaffman '17, elected captain to succeed G. C. Caner '17, who graduated at mid-years, will issue a call for players about April 1 and trials will be held from which a four-man team will be selected to make the Southern trip. The results of the University and inter-class championship tournaments held last fall will have no bearing whatsoever on the selection of the spring teams...
...time of peace the active work of the squadron consists of a summer cruise, of a minimum length of three weeks, generally to be held in conjunction with the Naval Training Cruise. The members are all liable to call at any time and in time of war the entire department will be placed in Class 4 of the Naval Coast Defence Reserve, composed of "citizens of the United States who are capable of performing special useful service in the Navy, or in connection with the Navy in defence of the coast...
...would be considered unwarranted oppression, and would fail of its intended moral effect. If we do it ourselves it will add, directly and indirectly, more men to the training unit than any other possible action, and its example will be felt throughout the country. It is easy enough to call others to make sacrifiees for their duty--it is simpler, but rarer, to make the sacrifices oneself...
Unless we do our share now, when we have the opportunity to be of most service, we shall have as little right in the future to call others "slackers" as we had in the past when we talked of the English football players who should have been at the front. It is a clear case of "put up or shut up" for Harvard...