Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result...
...business candidates are required to solicit advertising and do a certain amount of clerical work. Such experience as may be gained from contact with business men and the operation of the paper will be valuable to a man after graduation, and in addition the successful candidates will have the opportunity of competing for the office of business manager in their Junior year...
...present critical and unsatisfactory position in which many men in the University find themselves, it has seemed to me a useful as it is a patriotic duty to lay before such of them as are interested certain information, which I believe is not generally known at Harvard, which may enable them more intelligently to solve the problem of becoming immediately useful to the nation in its deliberately-formed determination to dispute and defeat, by force of arms, the pretensions of autocratic and irresponsible power...
...Certain it is that the duty of those who believe the war is wrong is fearlessly and publicly to say so, after the manner of that enlightened group in England which, with David Lloyd-George as its spokesman, rendered such loyal service to freedom and fair-play and all that England aspires to be by publicly denouncing the Boer War and boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however...
With close order drill mastered to a certain extent the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University has for the last few days turned its time to extended order movements and combat exercises. In the first two battalions this work has comprised skirmish drills and sham engagements between troops, under the supervision of the French officers, while in the provisional battalion the men are being trained in the elementary evolutions of the open order, and also in the principles of fire control and the management of the rifle...