Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French soldiers are brave or cowardly just in proportion as their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves fit to answer the call when it comes. The draft plan may fail, for it is impossible to tell how serious the resistance in certain districts will become. Then the only thing to do will be to call for volunteers, and then, perhaps, it will be the duty of all Yale...
Plans for a four-year military training course which would fit graduates for positions in the reserve army of officers have nearly been completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Several of the regular army officers have conferred with Major Cole, head of military affairs at the Institute, in regard to including military training in the regular work throughout the four years. It is expected that if this course be established the Technology men drafted under the conscription bill will be assigned to the Institute and be allowed to finish their regular course while securing their military training...
...continued at Harvard University during the summer months, and all members enrolled therein will devote their entire time to military instruction commencing May 7, 1917. Until the closing of the University, June 23, 1917, students will occupy such quarters as they are now using, or may see fit to use. Immediately following the closing of the University the Corps will be quartered in specified dormitories and barracks. All members of the Corps will then be required to live in these barracks...
...years and nine months of age or older who have had any considerable military training already, are advised to apply for admission to Plattsburg or the corresponding camp in their section of the country. Those who do not succeed, and all other men over 20 years old and physically fit, are strongly urged to enroll in the Harvard Corps; in the belief that, although to do so will not lead to a commission in three months, it will lay a foundation, theoretical and practical, that will fit for one in no long time thereafter." "A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...continued delay of the War Department in deciding whether Harvard will have a training camp it is no longer feasible for the eligible men in the R. O. T. C. to wait. These men want to obtain the best military instruction the country offers in order to fit themselves to be officers of the first army of five hundred thousand. The system of officers' training camps which have already been authorized will give this. Since it is doubtful whether a federal camp is to be established in Cambridge, all those in the R. O. T. C. at present who fulfill...