Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been determined to what size the Corps will be increased, but it will not be greater than 2,000. Other college men of New England, barred from Plattsburg for various reasons, will be allowed to attend, and it is believed that there will be more applications than can be taken care...
Note that nine of the 11 institutions that have more than five alumni in Congress are state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other...
...dangers of the battlefield before other citizens of equal age, privileges and responsibilities? There is no logical reason, and that is why the new army should be raised according to the principle of universal liability. The antiquated and undemocratic system of volunteer armies failed miserably in the Civil War. England has suffered needlessly and delayed final victory for the Allies because she clung to the old tradition of volunteer armies during the first year of the war. Surely this country will not be deaf to the advice of a glorious and respected ally that has tried old weapons and found...
...reasons for the establishment of a unit of the Training Corps in Cambridge which may secure a favorable decision from the War Department. At present, with the transfer of that camp which was to have been stationed at Fort Ethan Allen to Plattsburg, there is no camp in New England. The location of the University at the centre of a group of colleges makes it particularly available...
...been the experience of England and Canada both at their universities and with their armies in the field that it is not desirable to cut out athletic sports however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us it is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled condition there is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may with entire fitness continue...