Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same time it must be remembered that one defect of the many virtues of democratic government is a lack of co-ordination which diminishes efficiency, retards and confuses action, and calls, at the beginning, at least, of any crisis, for the aid of private and voluntary association and effort...
...this for which I appeal. Enrolment must be speedy and complete. Every man must do his bit and his best to keep the Regi- ment "in the pink of condition" and at the height of efficiency. Let us show the country, each one, of us by his own individual effort, that we mean to put this thing through. Let us show the Government that we can equal, if not beat, them at their own game. Let us show the alumni and the University that we appreciate what they have done for us. And finally, let us show our French instructors...
...other members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. Unit are strongly advised to stay in the unit. An effort is being made by Captain Cordier to have the Harvard Unit put on the same basis as the Federal Training Camps--that is, so that members of this unit of the prescribed age can be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps at the end of three months' intensive training on exactly the same footing as men who go to the Plattsburg and other Federal Training Camps...
...established in Cambridge, all those in the R. O. T. C. at present who fulfill the requirements for the regular camp at Plattsburg should at once make application for the camp beginning May 8 at the headquarters at 42 Water Street. Captain Cordier is making every possible effort in Washington to have either a junior or a federal camp established here, but we shall not know whether he is successful for a few days. In the meantime the enrolments for the federal camps are coming in very fast. Therefore the safest plan for the man who wishes...
...foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections of the country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will...