Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While it is not practicable at present to reach directly through private agency all the young men of the country, it is entirely feasible to bring the "Plattsburg idea" directly to the attention of over 1,000,000 college, high school and young business and professional men. A considerable proportion of these men are ready and eager to equip themselves to serve their country if only a practicable plan is presented to them. Such a plan is the summer training camp of the regular army...
...Military Training Camps Association proposes to put the training camp idea, its opportunities and advantages before the great constituency of young men above described. This will be done by distributing circulars through the medium of the college and graduate lists, Young Men's Christian Associations, commercial and professional organizations, etc., by sending speakers to the colleges and larger cities, by organizing local recruiting committees, and by other similar means...
...about ten Universities. Though no definite plans were formulated, considerable propaganda work was done among the foreign students along the line of the International Policy Club movement which is spreading rapidly among American universities and colleges. We often found, among the foreign students, a hearty response to the idea of some sort of World Federation of Students...
...Widener Debaters" could be persuaded to hold forth elsewhere. With all due respect to the Illustrated, I do not believe that an editorial of protest published once will have any very concrete or lasting effect, and, accordingly I am writing this in the hopes, that the repetition of the idea and the fact that it will be presented to a larger number of undergraduates, will bear fruit...
...Harvard overlooking an obvious opportunity in not adopting the idea? While only experience will show, it is reasonable to assume that 100 men could look after the diners in Memorial Hall, whom 70 professional waiters cared for at the beginning of this year, when about 1,000 men were being served. Over 100 men are registered at the Students' Employment Office as desiring this work, and a large force of extra help, which it would seem best to keep on call, could be easily recruited from men who would eagerly accept such employment if opportunity offered...