Word: draft
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft law was wisely planned (and it was planned slowly enough by those who are reputedly our wisest men) then the nation does not need in the work it has set out to do the services of men beyond the statutory limits. The first purpose of the draft law was to get the services of all men within the ten years prescribed. The second purpose was to relieve from those not called the stigma of failing their cause...
...have been relieved of the volunteer system, which is heroic, bombastic, and quite wasteful. In its place we have substituted the draft system, much less inspiring, but quite necessary in this age of specialization. Just as all men of twenty-one to thirty-one have been drafted for our martial armies, so men over thirty-one have been drafted to continue the business of our country. And in like measure boys under twenty-one have been drafted to continue their education, that the class of intelligent men may not be diminished in a future decade...
...camp, which is to be established in Princeton this summer. Principal interest centres in the fact that the War Department has decided to recognize the camp as furnishing valuable preliminary training for the series of Government training camps to be opened later, as well as for those subject to draft, and, that a regular army officer, retired, will be detailed as camp commandant...
...announced by the university that the War Department will detail a regular army officer as commandant. The camp is designed to give practical intensive training in preparation for entrance into military work for the Government, either in one of the officers' training camps or for service under the draft...
Those who are not yet of age to be eligible for commissions or for the draft feel nevertheless that they must find some service which will be worthy of their desire to serve. That impulse, to be frank, affects boys from the age of fourteen on. The old order has changed, and they seek the adventure of life in the new. As result there are many boys of seventeen who are attempting to enter the Navy, and others who are seeking in what way they may help their country, provided it be a way of excitement and romance...