Word: generality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire army has now become a training school for officers, according to General Pershing's plan for the promotion of enlisted men. All who show sufficient ability are to be detached from each unit to take special instruction with the purpose of obtaining a commission. In this way it is intended to form a large corps of reserve lieutenants...
...that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers with sufficient bearing and knowledge to mark them out at once as leaders. To all who are so trained General Pershing's plan assures a commission...
...instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever. A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...conclusion, he reminded the R. O. T. C. cadets of Clausewitz's words: "War is only a continuation of State policy by other means. The most decisive act of judgment of the statesman and general is to understand correctly the war in which he engages, not to take it for something which by the nature of the case it cannot possibly...