Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government has made no definite statement as to what positions, in case of war, will be open to men who have taken the civilian course for naval training, but the men who fit themselves for this work before the opening of hostilities are certain to get officerships ahead of those who wait until after a declaration of war before starting to train...
After a sleepless night the CRIMSON began to see red, and on the morning of February 14 it threw a fit: "Only 600 men in Harvard University have thus far aroused themselves from their comfortable state of lethargy. . . . Will it take the very rumble of the enemy's guns to convince them? . . . Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses" Shades of Patrick Henry! Here is the CRIMSON transformed from a modest advocate of universal preparedness for social efficiency into a war conjurer. These words are wonderfully like the cries of other people in 1914: The enemy is coming...
...repeat these questions so as to fit the war issue. Will war defend American lives on the seas or destroy them? Are there no alternatives which will more effectively defend American lives on the seas and with less damage to the lives and institutions on land? Suppose there are not. Then are lives on the seas more precious than the lives and activities on land, which would be burned up by war? Against sea rights we must set the rights of those who stay at home to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much...
...justice to his studies, the training unit and athletics as well. The authorities have done their part by crediting us for the academic work of Military Science. They might well have insisted that we first sacrifice our "outside acti- vities"; but what they did not see fit to demand we should freely grant...
...Captain Cordier. A large number of these were students in the Law School and other Graduate Schools, as well as members of the Faculty. A number of applications have been rejected owing to physical disability. Dr. R. I. Lee '02 is taking great care to see that only physically fit men pass through his hands into the training corps...