Word: ought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first things that Congress ought to do is to 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...
Universal service is the only solution of this great democracy's problem. We are in this struggle individually, and not merely to lend the moral support of our Government's name. Every eligible citizen that considers himself a red-blooded man ought to desire to serve his country. At least he should be given an equal chance. Harvard men have endorsed the principle of universal service by their patriotic actions of the last year. They can do an important additional service by preaching their doctrine to all they meet and by using their influence, however small, to force the passage...
...future of the R. O. T. C. still in the balance. President Lowell is in Washington today conferring with the members of the War College about the establishment of an additional training camp in Cambridge, and a definite statement can be expected soon. Whatever the decision may be, it ought not to deter any students from fulfilling the imperative duties of the next two weeks...
...aviators with which France began this war. After two and three-quarters years' of this world war which has been the greatest object lesson in the value of air fighting that could well be conceived of, we have today about one-fiftieth of the number of aviators that we ought to have and that we easily might have had, if sufficient attention had been given to the matter and if sufficient money had been asked for by the army and navy...
...terminate their College work and devote as much time as is feasible to military instruction. No college head could have done more to aid the Government, or in fact, to set an actively patriotic example for the Government, than President Lowell has done. The mass meeting tonight ought to be both an opportunity to hear inspiring advice, and a deserved tribute to our President who has led the Harvard preparedness movement...