Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much struck by the Advocate's second editorial in the current issue "A Plea for Prose." So far as my own experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that...
...Under present conditions it is almost or quite impossible to carry out schedules of games planned in times of peace. Our teams are broken up; the interest of our athletes is rightly transferred to other things than athletics; and there is here, as elsewhere, a general feeling that formal and important intercollegiate contests would be out of place at such a time as this. It is with great regret that we cancel our games. I have little doubt that your experience and your wishes are much like ours...
There is also the likelihood that the members of the R. O. T. C. will not have to give up their College work at once and devote themselves exclusively to military training. General Wood has strongly urged that the men in the Reserve Corps be kept in College as long as possible. While the final decision rests with the War Department and the University authorities, the probability that College work will not be interrupted is strong enough to justify the undergraduates' spending the full amount of time on their regular studies...
Three months ago, Secretary Baker of the War Department declared that there were "plenty of arms for a force of 1,000,000 men," but General Crozier, chief of ordnance, has estimated that by June 30 we will have probably only 850,000 rifles and it will undoubtedly be necessary to make changes in existing private plants making rifles for the Allies, as no two European rifles are the same, and all are different from the American rifle. Moreover, it is probable that these plants could not be in working order inside of a year. For the army planned...
...case of war, at least for the time being. His plan is to have those not fitted for service participate in athletics. "These diversions could serve to lighten the tension and relieve the public mind. If the time comes when the depression of war is great, such a general participation on the part of those who are available to enter athletic competitions and who, for one reason or another, cannot be actively serviceable to the country, would have a tendency to relieve this depression and inspire courage again...