Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...like nearly all kinds of war activity, the work of the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and all the other kindred organizations requires material assets for its support. In a certain sense, there is in this field a division of labor and sacrifice, which always means co-operation. Thousands of men and women engaged in active service in France are doing their utmost to carry on the work; it is the duty of those at home to extend to them every means at their disposal in the way of aid and encouragement. Nothing that we can do would...
...close of the S. A. T. C. Camp held at Plattsburg from July 18 to September 16, 59 University men were commissioned as second lieutenants. The majority received commissions in infantry, but a certain percentage secured appointments as field artillery officers. These latter will attend a two months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...
According to the regulations of the training camp for heavy artillery, all candidates must be in the military service at the time they are accepted, but a special provision is being made for certain selected men now in civil life...
...some time been felt by the cadet officers and men of the University R. O. T. C. that certain changes in its administrative organization could be effected to the great advantage of the Corps. Outside of formations, impatience has frequently been expressed with the manner in which affairs have been conducted, and the errors made have been the subject of much--too much--undergraduate criticism. Few men stop to realize the immense difficulties attendant upon the operation of a organization like the Regiment, which is in effect a small depot brigade for officers that feeds its leaders into the service...
...those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks and at Barre. In any military body strong centralized authority and its complement, centralized responsibility, are always essential; beyond a doubt their absence has menaced the strength of our military organization this year. Equally certain, however, is the fact that the new order will re-establish that discipline, respect for authority, and esprit de corps that will always be connected with the names of Azan, Shannon and Cordier...