Word: plan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Your plan of selling Smileage Books seems to be an admirable way of financing this worthy enterprise because it gives to the individual citizen an easy opportunity of furnishing the means for numerous good times to his soldier friends...
...idea clearly contains merit. Hundreds of college men, now below the draft age, would welcome the opportunity to devote the long vacation to intensive preparation for military service of a kind still greatly needed. To students in those institutions which now have no R. O. T. C. the plan would be particularly attractive, because it would enable them to get a training which conditions at their own colleges force them to forego...
...plan will depend for its success upon something more than the mere approval of the War Department. To be of the fullest value it must also have Governmental recognition. The argument so often presented in the case of individual college camps that the Federal authorities cannot distinguish between institutions will no longer obtain. Here will be an all-college Plattsburg to all intents and purposes identical with the training camps which the Federal authorities themselves created. If may be too much to expect that the college students attending will be granted commissions on a satisfactory completion of the course...
Richard Bennett is well filled to approach the problem of "Smileage" from the side pertaining to the Stage, for he has been an ardent follower of the cause since a group of actors suggested the plan to the authorities, after seeing its counterpart working with great success abroad...
...officers now in the service, so must the colleges today supply trained men to step in when the others are thinned out. We must, however, work as far as possible together, and not allow university ties to affect the training of the college man. The above plan has disadvantages which, upon investigation, may prove prohibitive, but it is offered as a suggestion with the belief that if adopted it would greatly increase the efficiency of R. O. T. C. summer training...