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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Field Artillery Unit, is a big step toward universal military service, and I strongly support any advance in that direction. I believe that every boy should be given training during his nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally...
...grounding in all of the principles of artillery, both in theory and in practice. Through such a course one will be able to qualify as a Reserve Officer and be in a position to offer his services to the government in case of any emergency, without the delay of long months of preparation, Its particular aim is to increase alertness, accuracy, and resourcefulness of thought, the art of working in co-operation with other men, and the learning how to obey and command. I hope that the undergraduates will give very careful consideration to the opportunity which is now extended...
Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
...field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred and seventy-five degrees were given by the University, while in 1909, the date of his retirement, over one thousand degrees were granted...
...prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...