Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College men and colleges themselves are anticipating any call that the nation may make upon them, and the institutions of the East, West, North and South are preparing themselves. If the Government wants sites for training camps, campuses are at its disposal. A dozen or more technical schools have offered the unrestricted use of their scientific laboratories for experiments; farming experts stand prepared to teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct...
...Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau advises you that 50 of the largest and most prominent universities, colleges and technical schools throughout the country are ready to provide the nation with men of specialized training for every need which may arise in your plans for rational defence...
Special permission has been secured from Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to enhibit the Government film entitled; "America Preparing," in which the various aspects of the nation-wide movement for adequate defences will be shown. "War As It Really Is" will be another of the films to be shown. This picture was photographed by D. C. Thompson, war correspondent of Leslie's Weekly, while he was under fire. It is recommended by the United States Naval War College, and reveals actual trench fighting, and the Germans marching through Belgium...
...University by a large majority indicated over ten weeks ago that it favored some form of universal military training for the young men of the nation. That was at a time when Congress, confronted by the bald fact of danger, was contemplating action. Since that vote was taken our international situation has changed from the dangerous to the imminently perilous. We are no further prepared. To be sure, we have a few training corps, and a few lady ambulanciers on the land, and a few converted pleasure boats on the water. But the nation is not more prepared to fight...
...petitions which are being circulated asking for the establishment of universal service should be signed by every man who has a broad regard for the interest of his nation. The signature of any one man may not seem a great thing. Yet the signature of many thousands of patriotic men may move our national legislature...