Word: conscript
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...sending out these notices, the committee has acted fairly--desiring not to conscript students into the course without warning. But the result has been to cause a good deal of misunderstanding, and much just criticism. The threat of a new course of any kind which may be imposed on undergraduates at the mere whim of some section men or examination correctors is severe. Almost all men make careless mistakes of commission and omission while writing under pressure in an examination; it is not thereby proved that they are in need of a disciplinary course in English Composition...
...speeches will be 12 minutes long and rebuttals five minutes. The subject as finally agreed upon is "Resolved: That the Government should conscript labor for war industries." All three contesting teams have agreed to leave out of consideration the constitutionality the question...
...Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection of the British soldiers. Regardless of the loss of the Passchendaele Ridge before...
...subject for the 1921 triangular debate with Yale and Princeton was announced last night by the University Debating Council. As tentatively phrased it is: "Resolved, That, constitutionality granted, the Government should conscript labor for war industries." Yale, according to previous agreement, may change the wording but not the substance of the subject as it stands. The question as finally amended will be announced Thursday...
...their prospects of future success are seriously diminished. By enrolling men as they come of age the War Department will always have within easy reach a large number of recruits well fitted for military service. Since we are no yet in that serious condition which forces our allies to conscript everyone capable of bearing arms, we hesitate to draft men under age. Although necessity may not demand this step, yet it does require that all who are of age be enrolled as soon as possible...