Word: militiaization
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There are men in the University who like to wear khaki, pitch tents and shoot at targets, and who would be glad to go in for military training. But such men have an outlet for their military ardor in several local militia regiments...
...serve the country. They would be unworthy if the call of the bugle did not stir a longing to be at the front; and when war comes, Harvard will send forth her full tale of men as she has done before. Many of our students are already in the militia, and will march whenever they are ordered. Others will enlist when needed, and as many will go as the country needs. No one who knows our undergraduates will doubt for a moment that they have the stuff that soldiers are made of: that they will endure hardship, maintain discipline, fight...
...people, in ignorance of our military affairs, have a serene confidence in the army that would be fatal in a time of emergency. The United States does not wish a large standing army; the policy being to maintain a highly efficient corps of regulars, backed by a good militia and a large force of volunteer reserves, and it is for the commanding and training of these reserves that the government is seeking men in the universities. The need has been further accentuated in the late years of territorial extension, for such acquisitions as the Panama Canal, the Philippines...
...purpose of the camps is to train leaders for militia in times of emergency, but besides the primary training in military tactics and manoeuvres, the men receive, through discipline and rigorous exercise, a mental and physical betterment that in itself is invaluable...
Through your columns I should esteem it a favor to be allowed to communicate with any men in the University interested in a camping tour during the summer in connection with the Massachusetts Sea Coast Defence. The officers and men of the 3rd Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, desire to call attention to the opportunity of attending camp this summer on one of the islands situated in Boston Harbor, where instruction, practice and "service Firing" with ten and twelve inch disappearing guns is conducted. This camp affords an interesting experience of ten days duration, combining a short taste...