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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Junior class at Yale has lost the greatest number of men on account of enlistments in government service. To date the total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...greatly impressed with the Military Department of Harvard University in every respect, and I believe that the work that is going on in the Regiment is of the utmost importance. The intensive training is being carried on with the greatest keenness, and the close order work and marching of the Regiment at the review was of the highest order and could only be surpassed by the cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point...
...least three million dollars of this government bond issue. It is not only large amounts from a few individuals which the government wishes, but that the issue may be spread among the entire nation, and thus add strength to the issue itself and the general financial situation. The greatest record which the United States has made in this respect--that of extending the sale to a large number of citizens--was at the time of the Civil War was the ratio...
...There were women in that mob in great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
...needs of national service are great. One of the greatest of those is for an efficient and adequate military corps. We have not in our nation now enough qualified doctors to serve the nation at home, and to serve an army of a million men abroad...