Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...news from Europe causes us to rejoice. But at the same time it makes us thoughtful. We feel the seriousness of the coming months. We know that the good of the nation will demand even greater moral and mental strength than was demanded by the war. To keep the world safe, to substitute better ideals for those that are outworn, to protect the weak, to direct the powerful, to build social machinery that will serve all classes and all nations without injustices--here are some of the tasks confronting us. Boston Traveler...
...will be given opportunity to prove themselves capable of becoming officers after further training. Some of the more experienced men are being sent to Central Officers' Training Schools as vacancies occur, but it is primarily essential that the greater part of the men should settle down to physical and mental work. At present it is planned to continue the training of officers, so that in event of national compulsory military service, the country will not lack officers...
Second, military training is very beneficial to the man personally in that it develops him physically and gives him invaluable mental training by the self-control, discipline and instantaneous response to orders and commands...
...would not only be unfair to the Nation which urgently needs them as officers in the shortest time that they can prepare for duty, but it would be unjust to the men themselves who are being tried by a competitive test which requires all of their mental and physical energy to assure success to themselves...
...manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already too absorbed with their own work as teachers to be qualified also as good pupils. Moreover, the advanced schools, under these conditions, could not be organized with the completeness and extent of curriculum essential to the development of anything like...