Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glamor and excitement that necessarily attends the opening of a great University, men in every class and department may overlook the sphere into which the college man has been cast by the great war. Leaders in the nation's military and administrative work have urged that, wherever possible, the education of young men be completed before they are lost in the mold of a great military organization. But the very fact that the nation is willing to dispense with our services for a greater future benefit, places us under the obligation to assume at least a tone of our coming...
...young men to return to their studies we had hoped that the class of 1921 would be the largest ever. We did not hope this so that the University merely might have greater numbers but rather that the University might have a greater number to instruct in serving the nation well...
...duty devolves on us in college. There is more than a probability that we shall be called into actual service. But whether this be true or not, our education must include that which will fit us either for fighting or for directing. The nation is looking to us as leaders in a few years. Some knowledge of military history, military science, or military theory will be necessary...
With a clear understanding of the wartime needs of the nation, there have been planned a comprehensive course in military science and another course in naval science for men who remain at their studies this year. It is to be expected that the military course will be more leisurely, more inclusive and more thorough than could be had at a training camp. It may well fit men for positions in the staff, where an officer cannot hope for success who does not have some compreshension of strategy as well as tactios. Such comprehension can come only from deep and constructive...
...course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation now may then be of service to their nation and themselves...