Word: drafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...using over here in its earliest sense, has spread to include different classes of men who, though they may be in the service, are not doing their utmost toward winning the war. First the word slacker meant the man who dodged the enlistment office and the draft; then it was applied to those who secured soft berths in the service, such as patrol-boat jobs or office work, when they were well fitted for active service in the line; and now those who have had college training and are skilled enough to be officers, but who have seen...
...that the capacity of the other two camps mentioned will not exceed 6,000 and if the ratio of graduates is approximately the same as that of the former training camps only about 4,000 officers will receive diplomas; when if the ratio of officers needed for the new draft is the same as that for the first draft more than 25,000 officers will be needed...
...system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands of an increasing population have been met by a draft on our reserve supplies and resort to temporary and makeshift means of raising production. But at last we are brought face to face with the choice of accepting a permanent scaling down of the standard of living as the present system of production becomes more and more out-of-date, or of affecting...
...Department would do well to give favorable consideration to the suggestion of the Harvard CRIMSON that an all-college-officers' training camp be established this summer. The idea clearly contains merit. Hundreds of college men, now below the draft age, would welcome the opportunity to devote the long vacation to intensive preparation for military service of a kind still greatly needed. To students in those institutions which now have no R. O. T. C. the plan would be particularly attractive, because it would enable them to get a training which conditions at their own colleges force them to forego...
...best of our knowledge, nothing of the sort is contemplated by the War Department. I also call to your attention the fact that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps work is a four-year course for all men who do not reach their 21st birthday, and consequently the draft age, before their senior year...