Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best and most comprehensive method of answering this question. As the Regiment of last year trained raw recruits to be privates, so Military Science 1, which comprises the instruction of the unit will teach men to become officers. The work of the unit will mean serious attention to all requirements and it is not designed to give men a pleasant form of afternoon exercise. The course is intended to enable Harvard undergraduates to meet the responsibilities of citizenship at a time of national crisis in an intelligent and honorable manner...
...graduate of the University has already offered to supply all horses needed by the unit, which will mean that a troop of cavalry can be formed later in the year. The officers' unit fund which is being raised among the graduates is materializing rapidly...
...with her engineering laboratories and extensive equipments for experiment is prepared for higher grade investigation in both the fields of science and applied science. The opportunities in this field are unlimited. If the nation and its universities could learn how much co-operation between the industries and laboratories would mean, there would be a revolution of incalculable value to science, to business, and to government...
...could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean, but if they mean that the young men of Harvard are thirsting for anyone's blood, they ought not to be there. WALTER SILZ...
...even admitting that the proposed system would mean compulsion of conscience--as I do not--it is submitted that such compulsion would be neither undemocratic nor un-Christian. All compulsion is not abhorrent to democracy and Christianity. Taxes are universally compulsory--and the payment of them may be against the conscience of some--but they are merely regarded as a necessary evil. Taxes are one thing which the individual owes the state. Military service is another, and the compulsion of a man to do his duty to the state is justified--even in a democracy...