Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Training Corps today begins the final test. Perhaps we have too tediously emphasized the need for preparation, but we cannot do it too often. For the examinations which start this morning are doubly important. In the first place, they have all the value and seriousness of finals in ordinary times. In the second, they are the last obstacles which stand in the way of a lieutenant's commission. Thus they are a test of academic as well as military fitness, for the past as well as for the future...
...Speaker avers that the President's selective draft bill cannot pass. Let us hope he is as good a prophet as he was when he declared last spring that the McLemore "scuttle" resolution was bound to win. Boston Post...
When our nation first aligned itself with those Powers who are fighting the most awful was in the dark history of the world the demand was born that we forego all of out former modes of existence and devote ourselves entirely to preparation for conflict. Great nations cannot live by war alone. The European people have already discovered that truth, and as many as possible are striving to keep alive some shadow of their former gaiety. It is only an apparent paradox that the sight of a movie of Chaplin the night before going into battle may make brave soldiers...
Compulsory education is a form of national defence without which a republic cannot continue to exist through the centuries. This form of compulsion serves a recognized need and Americans would not tolerate its abolition...
...encourage intercollegiate sports so far as possible without interfering with military preparation. Until the plans of the authorities take definite form, however, it is impossible to organize regular competitions. These will probably take the form of interclass and scrub contests and there is no reason why these teams cannot arrange occasional informal games or races with local outside organizations. In the meantime, for the benefit of both of next year's teams, if there are such, and of the individual athletes, it is desirable that the men should continue to take part regularly in outdoor sports if only...