Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such and such categories--and it finds them. On the day when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this war is not only a soldier's war but a people's war, we must have strict organization of all resources of the nation. And just as the commander...
What are you supposed to be is a training school for officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...
...Fourth Series of Officers' Training Camps will report. It is now certain that all those men assigned to Quota A--members of Military Science 2--will report for duty and training at Camp grant, Rockford, Ill., and that the other men of the University's quota will go to Camp Devens next Wednesday, May 15. All men who are to leave College to attend these O. T. C.'s must receive certificates from Major Flynn stating that they are to be admitted to the training camps. Without these certificates no men will be accepted at the two cantonments...
...detail will form to go to Wakefield on Friday, May 10, at 3.30 P. M. on Cambridge Street, opposite Fogg Museum...