Word: masters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this war is not only a soldier's war but a people's war, we must have strict organization of all resources of the nation. And just as the commander of a military force is the only master who may dispose of the services and of the lives of his men, so the leaders of your country are the only masters who may decide where and when and how each one of you should give his work, his brain, or his life. The will of your country...
...school for Boy Scout masters, made necessary by the prevailing lack of men eligible for positions in the scout service, has been organized and is open to all members of the University. This course, the meetings of which are to be held at Boston University, will extend throughout a period of three months. There will be no expense attached, instruction will be individual and under the tutelage of experts, and the amount of time occupied will consist only of weekly meetings coming every Thursday. The period of apprenticeship over, a scout master is expected to devote two hours a week...
...school are three in number: the applicant must be of age, though not subject to draft for military service; he must consent to pursue the three months' schooling to the end; he must be able and willing to serve without pay for two years as a scout master...
Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, from which John Harvard was graduated, will extend its hospitality to members of the University on military service abroad. A letter received by President Lowell from Master P. Giles of the English university, states that arrangements are being made at many of the colleges of England to provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should...
...ensign's examinations which ranks with the cadet school in Holyoke House and with that at Annapolis. He worked untiringly for our advancement, taking pains to include in his program every detail which would make our training as officers more complete. As an instructor and a drill-master he showed a tense interest in every man in his course, working with patient thoroughness and a degree of fairness that from the start won for him the esteem and love of us all. What is to be admired above all this, however, is the grit which led him, in spite...