Word: equality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main part of the address was devoted to an explanation of the regulations in the Quartermaster's Corps. It was stated that a man in the supply department has an equal opportunity for promotion, with any other man in the regular army, and if he has been capable his experience in army management will always prove of the utmost value. A differentiation was made between the two branches of the service. One of these has charge of all the base work such as the collection and organization of supplies. The other group is concerned with the work of taking supplies...
...whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that this word is merely a euphemism to justify an attempt to meet all tastes...
...brave man, the strong man, the generous man will receive that honor and fellowship which is the foundation of liberty and equality. The man who is the reverse will be judged with justice. If ever we inclined towards the vice of snobbery, if ever we weighed men by what other men said about them, if ever the faintest measure of false standards was raised among us, that is now gone. The democracy of equal service is ours to the fullest. We are preparing to fight for a great cause. We will honor other men who unselfishly are preparing to fight...
President Wilson advises that the necessary men "be chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service." Without any question, volunteers should be obtained on a democratic basis. Since every young man in the United States enjoys equal rights and equal protection under the laws of this Government, every young man ought to bear equal responsibility in the defence of the country whose Government insures him his political freedom and protection. A call for volunteers will unquestionably bring out more men than are needed, but they will be a class of men that have a pronounced sense of patriotism. They...
Major-General Leonard Wood's advice to the students of Princeton in the present period of suspense and uncertainty has an equal value for the members of the University. At a mass meeting of all Princeton undergraduates last Sunday, held for the purpose of urging students to remain at Princeton and join the military units there rather than leave college and become scattered in various volunteer organizations throughout the country General Wood was not able to be present, but wrote a letter to President Hibben stating his views...