Word: costly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such eagerness is honorable, but it is not wise, if we believe this war may last over an increasingly serious term of years. Men are destroyed easily by the iron tools of destruction which the modern army possesses. But they are healed slowly and only at great cost of skill, of time, and patience, by those who know their profession thoroughly. Our inventors have passed beyond the bounds of the imaginable in contriving ways whereby men may be in great quantities and instantaneously blotted from existence. They have not yet found a way whereby men may be restored mechanically...
...minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip by, is not gaining something at a small cost; he is not deserving his instruction. The deception is against himself. He is the man to suffer...
Plans are being made to continue the present military camp at Princeton throughout the summer. A ten weeks' course of instruction has been mapped out and the corps will be opened to graduates and other educated men. The cost of the training for each man is estimated at $115, and scholarships to cover this amount have been subscribed by patriotic citizens in order to enable men who cannot afford the expense may yet benefit from the training...
...necessary to pay for the subsistence of a certain number after the time the men are obliged to live in barracks. All men who are financially able to do so will be obliged to pay for their board and will be urged to contribute a sum equal to the cost of their equipment. We must not, however, turn away good men for lack of the necessary funds to pay for their support while at the camp...
Some of the huge amount of money which we must pay for war may come out of the current generation by taxes. Yet such taxes can both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...