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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the destinies of your country call on you to contribute it. By so doing, in the first place, you will be carrying out the wishes of your country. Certain men have been assigned the heavy task of organizing the resources of the nation for this tremendous struggle. They know where men are to be found, and what are each man's qualifications and abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week, the War Department says. "We need so many men, of such and such categories...
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...
...often of lack of equipment or officers, no military unit has been established, every opportunity will now be given to train an efficient corps. In addition, the R. O. T. C.'s that have already been established will be brought into more perfect co-ordination; the War Department will know just what results it wants from each one, and the best way to obtain these results. As the graduates of the R. O. T. C.'s will be trained uniformly everywhere, officers can be made of them more quickly and efficienly than has heretofore been the case...
...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
...been rash and impetuous in opposing our feelings to the well-considered opinions of President Lowell, President Wilson, General Wood, other prominent men. We may have been foolish to try to set the eager spirit of youth against the mature judgment of those who are in a position to know what is right. But with this same enthusiasm we do feel that after three years of college, during which time he will surely obtain the very best it can offer him, the average undergraduate should answer the call. It is the greatest call the world has ever known; and maybe...