Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Would it not be more to the point this year for certain universities to unite their summer training into a single, All-College R. O. T. C.? Such an arrangement would abolish many of the objections to small camps, which are expensive even for the larger universities and impossible in the smaller colleges. In addition, it would have tremendous advantages in the following ways...
...once since the United States entered the war has peace seemed a more distant object than today. Nor has victory ever seemed to require such titanic effort. Even the most optimistic man now knits his brow and wonders how it is all coming out. We knew last April that our task was to be a terrible one, that we were going against a mass of forces which had never before been brought together in such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed...
...carry on a good fight one must know what the measure of his antagonist is. Now for the first time we do know what strength is pitted against us. Now for the first do we realize that an iron-ribbed Germany is waging war with few of those ribs even strained...
...army is a citizen army. It is composed of our brothers, our cousins and our sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter...
...American University Union in Europe is successful even beyond expectations," writes Anson Phelps Stokes, president of the Union, in a letter recently received by Roger Pierce '04, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the American University Union abroad...