Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opportunity to present arms to the Secretary of War. Organization and reorganization this corps has undergone, each time that a way has partly opened for those who were its members to enter the nation's regular services. Appearing first in the winter of 1915 as the spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving in discipline and in effectiveness, it received...
...make this review a success means concentrated effort on everyone's part; it means a full attendance with each man clad in complete uniform. Up to the present this has been impossible. Today we must all be in the uniform prescribed...
...nine hours of training is very little in preparation for so important an event. It is like having the Yale football game in the middle of October and expecting to see a finished football machine. Secretary Baker cannot expect too much; nevertheless, the new men by a little conscientious effort can do a great deal for the fame of the Corps and thus help make the Secretary's visit worth while...
...informal university football team modelled along the lines of those at the University and Yale has been partially formed at Princeton. With the backing of a number of regular players who are still left in college, they are making an effort to arrange games with the men who are in the Government Aeronautical School at Princeton as well as with teams from other military and naval camps...
...game where teamwork triumphed over individual effort the informal University football team defeated the Naval Reserves from Bumpkin Island 35 to 0 in the Stadium Saturday afternoon...