Word: drafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft age limit will not be reduced below 21 years at the present time, is the opinion of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, in a letter recently received by the CRIMSON. In the early part of the month communications from 66 members of Congress to the Yale News showed that although several senators and representatives favored a lowering of the draft age, a large majority opposed any change...
Because of the draft system this is an especially just and far-sighted program. In the future, as they have in the past, many non-coms, will rise to high positions. The abundance among draftees of men with natural ability to lead is to be taken advantage of. Both individual and organization will gain, for the former will render the most service he can, while the latter develops to the full its potential powers...
...ones refilled, time and again, with men enlisting of their own accord, impelled by the moral obligation of patriotism and unselfishness. Unstintingly has Canada offered such soldiers as defeated the Hun at Vimy Ridge. Now, however, the spirit of the volunteer has been utilized to its capacity, and the draft is invoked to play its part...
...asked the question: How would Harvard be affected if the draft age were lowered to nineteen...
...draft age were lowered to nineteen, it seems highly probable that Harvard would be overtaken by the same sort of situation as that which has developed during these last three years at Oxford and Cambridge. I have been told that at Oxford at the present moment there are no more than 120 undergraduates; the situation at Cambridge being approximately the same. The dons, or, as we should say, the faculty, have had their incomes from all sources reduced at least one-half or two-thirds in most cases. While it is difficult to estimate situations of this sort before-hand...