Word: mays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minor can enter the army without the written consent of his parents. The recruit must weigh under 190 pounds and must be less than 5 ft. 10 in. tall. He is carefully examined by the army surgeon and is rejected if found at all defective in body. He may wear glasses, must have no internal defects, nor defects in ears or teeth. Then if passed, after a week's probation he is enlisted in the army...
President Eliot spoke in part as follows: War for the private soldier or sailor is at best a dull, coarse, squalid business It can not have any attraction for you, and yet the question-Shall I volunteer?- may become a pressing one within a few weeks or months. I shall discuss that question from the student's point of view...
...bearing arms, recognize under various conditions the supremacy of duty to the family over duty to the state, the permanence of the family being a supreme object in the state. Under our own conditions then, it is clear that no one is justified in enlisting whose family is, or may become dependent on him for support...
...President W. De W. Hyde, D. D., will conduct morning prayers from May 24 to June...
President Hyde may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 9 till...