Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...approval and support of the War Department. The program of training as mapped out by Captain Constant Cordier, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, and commandant of the training corps, is are of the most comprehensive and useful training plans that has been accepted at any large non-land-grant university in the United States. There is ample authority for the statement that six months of such work as is now being done will create there a considerable body of college men capable of serving as reserve officers in the event of war. Captain Cordier has admitted that he would...
...flags in commemoration of the birthday of Lincoln. It would be the depth of prejudice to hint that the display of those flags betokened anything but the sincere admiration of the commanders of the liners. Those men, alien and powerless in this country while a great war threatens the land of their birth, may have come in thirty months to feel some measure of regard for that great American who typifies the ideals and the democratic power of his people...
...There will be a great deal closer sense of relationship to the Federal War Department among the men of the regiment under their new terms of enlistment, now that they are assured that commissions will be available to graduates in time of need. The technical restrictions usually imposed upon land-grant colleges in return for the position now sought by Harvard, it is to be hoped, will soon be revised and adjusted to meet the natural requirements of the University. Of course the specifications as to drill, including numerous hours each week, are very difficult for Harvard to accept...
...attention of all prospective members of the training corps is invited to paragraph 4 of the enrolment blank. This will free each student in the corps from subsequent obligation to serve in any capacity in the land forces of the United States, unless when offered a commission, he shall voluntarily choose to do so. Paragraph 5, Captain Cordier states, will also allow students with dependant relatives or otherwise unable to serve in the land forces of the United States to be honorably discharged for sufficient cause if deemed wise in the opinion of the commandant