Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...duty devolves on us in college. There is more than a probability that we shall be called into actual service. But whether this be true or not, our education must include that which will fit us either for fighting or for directing. The nation is looking to us as leaders in a few years. Some knowledge of military history, military science, or military theory will be necessary...
...comprehensive course in military science and another course in naval science for men who remain at their studies this year. It is to be expected that the military course will be more leisurely, more inclusive and more thorough than could be had at a training camp. It may well fit men for positions in the staff, where an officer cannot hope for success who does not have some compreshension of strategy as well as tactios. Such comprehension can come only from deep and constructive study...
...naval course will fit men for positions as junior officers of the line of the navy, and for service in our merchant marine. That is possibly an even more important work than training army officers. An army officer may sometimes be born with the gift of leadership. A navy officer is always made, and by a slow and exact course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation...
...obvious that one may not measure to the year and the day the age of an individual's mind. Some men of nineteen may be more fit to undertake the military life than some boys of twenty-three. But as an average the younger man, the boy, should not be called to arms...
...accept no men under 31 years of age, a special order from the Adjutant General to these boards required that serious consideration be given to all R. O. T. C. applicants for admission; the result was that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older than 20 years and nine months were, with few exceptions, accepted. Over a hundred others successfully passed the examinations for provisional second lieutenancies in the regular army. The rest of the men, though at present not in the service, are in a position to advance rapidly when they become...