Word: defended
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Plattsburg Military Camp last summer, Captain Roger Dyer Swaim '01, of the First Battalion of Field Artillery, M. V. M., has arranged from school from volunteers who wish to train with a view to taking command of citizen forces, should and emergency call them into the field to defend the country...
...what was done during the recent Governor's Conference. Another interesting and instructive feature will be a demonstration of the lack of preparedness in the form of an exhibit which may become permanent and which will show in concrete form how lacking this nation is in preparedness to defend itself in case of attack by another nation...
...charges are essentially true. The most optimistic would hardly defend the intellectuality of the majority of undergraduates. Some of the causes for this condition, however, are to be found elsewhere than in the student's own depravity. The German student, for example, is usually older than the American and has had greater preparation. Moreover, this is still a new and essentially commercial country, where ideas are not so much in the minds and lives of men out of college as they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest...
...safety of our own land from injury by war. They realize that defencelessness is not the best protection from aggression. Knowing that we do not covet the possessions of others, they believe that foreign nations are less likely to quarrel with us if we are well able to defend ourselves. Few again, if any, of these men want to increase our military forces in order to go to war; and they are, no doubt, right that a reasonable state of preparation is far more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There is no danger of our becoming a military...
...team is eligible to compete again. Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16, national singles champion, is expected to recover the intercollegiate title held by G. M. Church, of Princeton. The University doubles team, Captain Williams and R. Harte '17, which won the championship at Philadelphia last September, will defend its title this year. Other members of last year's team who are eligible to compete are J. S. Brown '17 and L. Curtis, 2nd, '16. Both of these have played on this year's team. Other regulars of this spring who will be eligible, are G. C. Caner...