Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Whatever military system is adopted in this country, the University instruction must inevitably become a part of it. It may be Congress will rehabilitate the National Guard, in which case the University could support an artillery batallion to which men, ambitious to receive military training may belong, and after a team of service, and a further term of study, might receive commissions in the reserve...
...popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways of peace...
...question of adequate pay for those attending the summer camps will come before Congress during its next session. Under the law now in force those attending the camps are furnished with transportation, rations and uniforms. In the proposed law, it is planned to pay the members of the R. O. T. C. an additional amount during the time they are in training camps
...navy was 60,000, and it is expected that for a considerable period we shall keep a force of about 225,000. This great increase will require some new source of trained officers. All the present naval appropriations will expire on the 30th of June, and unless Congress is called in special session before then, there will be no funds with which to operate the navy. For this reason, we have to be extremely careful in all expenditures, and can take no steps toward the establishment of naval units or the increase of the reserve this spring, but plans...
...will all kinds of text-books be accepted in the text-book and clothing collection of Phillips Brooks House, but special emphasis will be laid on contributions of fiction works, magazines, and other literature. This is in accordance with a recent cable message from Herbert Putnam '83, Librarian of Congress, now in France, which reads as follows: "Urge everything possible to stimulate book and magazine donations--need never greater than present--at least million more fiction and miscellaneous books demanded within next six months to maintain army morale...