Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...
...want to make clear this point, that I completely agree with Col. Applin as far as this subject is concerned. I am very grateful to him for having backed up with his high authority the criticism I expressed so often. Our men must acquire more precision and more snap in all the close order exercises, in marching, and in all these details which give troops a good military appearance, and impress in a favorable way the civilian spectators...
...far, the whole Regiment has had but a few opportunities to drill since the return of fine weather. More and more we shall insist on that point, and everybody in the Corps will be eager to do his best in order that the Harvard R. O. T. C. may maintain and deserve its reputation...
...undergraduates were extremely restless, and that they were not satisfied to serve in Reserve Officers' Training Corps because that gave them no military credit in the eyes of the Government. Hence the lure of the Aviation Corps or the Navy or the ranks of the army. In so far as the new plan will hold these youths within collegiate walls, it is a step forward; in so far as it turns all our colleges into military academies, it is regrettable, however inevitable it may be. As all men are probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government...
...showing made in the contest with the Elis was far from satisfactory, particularly in hitting, which has been regarded as the team's strong point throughout the preliminary engagements. On the other hand the nine displayed marked improvement in the field and with more practice will present a steady defence in the two remaining collegiate contests with Yale and Princeton...