Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before assignment to a training school applicants will be subjected to an examination by a board to determine their physical, mental and moral qualifications. A candidate will be required to state in writing that if he successfully passes his aviation tests that he will become an officer in the Aviation Section, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps. If the applicant successfully passes he will be recommended to the officer in charge of the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, who will appoint him a noncommissioned officer and will place him on active duty up to the time his course is finished. If the applicant...
...expedition to fight typhus in Serbia. Harvard's casualty list in consequence has grown pretty long. Not a bad record for one neutral university, eh? I don't seem to remember your Oxford or Cambridge sending out a medical unit to help us when we were fighting for a moral issue, back in the 'sixties, under Lincoln...
...Student Council should immediately pass a resolution suspending all athletics at Harvard and cancelling all engagements for intercollegiate contests until the "imminence of war" is past. In the Faculty did this it would be considered unwarranted oppression, and would fail of its intended moral effect. If we do it ourselves it will add, directly and indirectly, more men to the training unit than any other possible action, and its example will be felt throughout the country. It is easy enough to call others to make sacrifiees for their duty--it is simpler, but rarer, to make the sacrifices oneself...
...should come, there is not one chance in ten that our army would be called on to fight with the Entente in Europe. The need of a land force would be for police duty and moral support at home. But our Navy will be called to help guard all the sea-ways of the world against sporadic and destructive attacks upon commerce...
...that, in the President's place, they would have applauded Germany for her latest move and rejoiced that the war was at last on a fair basis. I got several of them to endorse the statement that their lives were more valuable than their honor or their moral welfare. "There would be no civilization if honor came before existence," they said...