Word: national
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Committee on Military Science and Tactica has made a report to the Board of Overseers finally recommending: "That the University further by its example and inspiration the establishment of a system of universal service throughout the nation...
...night, when the drive ends, wid represent practically a one hundred per cent, effort on the part of Harvard men. The results so far are felt to be satisfactory, but a great deal more remains to be done if Yale's quota is to be definitely beaten, and the nation at large shown what Harvard thinks of the memory of Theodore Roosevelt...
Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
...Committee means only that Harvard establish universal service among its students, as an example and inspiration to the nation, the Committee might better have said so unambiguously. That would at least be a proper recommendation and profitably debatable. WILLIAM GORHAM RICE...
...this argument, the public does. The latter receives no increase in wages, but shares the same burdens. Federal investigators claim that yielding to the workers demands would mean a ten dollar extra tax on everybody. For a small minority to attempt to force such a liability on the nation is criminal. This movement must be fought to the finish...