Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...revealed many virtues in the American people it has also brought to light one of the most sinister vices that can affliot a civilized community. The army reports from the different draft camps reveal an alarming percentage of illiteracy among the draftees, not only with men of foreign birth but also among the native born Americans. New estimates represent, the number of illiterates in the country as being far above the census reports of the last decade...
...wage of $750 for teachers in the state. But that is absolutely inadequate if the teaching profession is to attract the type of people who are competent to be the guides during their most impressionable years of the future Americans. The startling number of young men disclosed by the draft who are illiterate or physically imperfect shows that our schools are functioning imperfectly even now. Should not the strong arm of the National Government reach out, then, and correct and regulate our common schools? It surely can do much good by way of improvement. But quite within the range...
...college might even go a step further in imitation of the ancient Greeks, and see that every man who desires to enter an athletic contest spends at least three months in preparatory training. By so doing many of the heart strains and other physical disorders found in the recent draft examinations would be avoided...
...these men who are returning to college life have a large expense to defray in procuring civilian clothing and other non-military equipment. The sudden termination of the war has financially embarrassed large numbers of undergraduates who have been in the service only for the short time since the draft age was lowered. The small amount of pay did not suffice to cover, in many cases, the deficit caused by lack of remuneration for expenses to and from Cambridge, which was the point of enrolment of the S. A. T. C. There were also many cases where college men were...