Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gentleman's grade of C" he flatly thought beneath him; his idea of a gentleman's grade was hard and thoughtful work on whatever the gentleman undertook. That landed him in Phi Beta Kappa, by direct action. Or rather it landed him among people who chose college because it was a place to do something, and then did it as well as they knew how. That principle he carried throughout his life. He never skimped or spared himself. He put Theodore Roosevelt, all there was of him, right into whatever he undertook...
...United States receive one dollar a day as pay, in addition to being completely found by the government. Considering what the modern soldier has to do and bear in trench warfare, in bayonet and hand grenade assaults and in storming towns and cities from the air, the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting. No worthy soldier does it or would do it for pay. He does and endures the horrible things required of him from a sense of duty to country, home, friends, and the coming generation...
...Eliot's specific proposals for organizing a national army, we are inclined to accept them in substance, with some few reservations, particularly in regard to his idea of a non-paid army. It has long been a serious problem of national policy to find means for providing a better distribution of educational opportunities among the masses of the American people. For that reason we would propose, in conjunction with the military training at the various depots throughout the country, a well ordered and thorough course in industrial education which shall afford to men of suitable capacity and inclination an opportunity...
...just sure when I wrote you last, but I've a sort of an idea it was about two weeks ago, while in the hospital, so--going on that supposition--I'll carry...
...Officers' Training Camps if they made application while still civilians. However, after a man is once inducted, he can no longer apply for admission to any branch of the service. The military authorities advise all who have not yet applied for an O. T. C. to give up the idea, and to be inducted into...