Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provide for military training on a basis of universality. Out of the men thus trained the army would naturally come. This does not mean that everybody would be a fighter, but it does mean that the huge resources of the country would be put at the service of the nation, for such arrangement and distribution and assignment as the public authority decreed...
This makes a democratic army. It does not throw the burden on the shoulders of those who are moved by an impulse of patriotism, excusing everybody else. Hard feelings would inevitably result if the nation's responsibility should be saddled on volunteers. There is vastly less reason for volunteering to go out to be shot down than for volunteering to pay one's taxes. How we should come out if the financial support of the nation were left on an optional basis, needs no diagram...
...School yesterday. All men in the Law School can now feel free to enter any arm of the service without losing credit for the work completed so far. With this last patriotic decision Harvard University is able to come forward as a unite to the service of the nation. It is no little sacrifice that the law student is making who gives up the study of a serious profession for the life of a soldier or sailor. The Law School authorities have done their part, and have facilitated the termination of the lawyers' work in every possible way. All honor...
...When our nation first aligned itself with those Powers who are fighting the most awful was in the dark history of the world the demand was born that we forego all of out former modes of existence and devote ourselves entirely to preparation for conflict. Great nations cannot live by war alone. The European people have already discovered that truth, and as many as possible are striving to keep alive some shadow of their former gaiety. It is only an apparent paradox that the sight of a movie of Chaplin the night before going into battle may make brave soldiers...
...Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps is one of the best branches of the service for men to enter, for in rank it stands next to the Engineer Corps, and its work is most necessary to the nation in time of war. The requirements for commissions in this reserve are very high, but the only requirements for the noncommissioned ranks are that the applicant be a citizen of the United States between the age of 18 and 45 years. When the army is fighting the field battalion works at the absolute front and maintains communication with every unit, post, and detachment...