Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accordance with the Act of Congress, approved May 4, 1916, "To increase the number of cadets at the Military Academy," this University is entitled to nominate one candidate to take a competitive examination for admission to West Point. The candidate to be eligible must be between the ages of 21 and 27 years at the date of admission (June 14, 1918), and not less than five feet five inches in height. The candidate must also be a graduate of this University whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approbation of the President, and his proficiency...
...that they are considered infants by their elders until they have passed middle age is altogether too well founded. A young man's ability is a difficult thing to make recognized per se. This is especially true in so conservative a business as our national government, where we can point to few men of tender years holding positions of responsibility. We have not had too many William Pitts or Lord John Russells. An exception to this rule, however, is our Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy in the New Lecture Hall...
...present there are three methods by which men may secure the training to become army officers. In order to win a commission, one may graduate from West Point, rise from the ranks, or secure preliminary training in some R. O. T. C. unit. The first of these is the privilege of very few, the second is an opportunity for every enlisted man, and the third, the logical course of those who can afford a college education. Although not everyone belongs to a training corps yet those who do are for the most part potential commanders. Since West Point...
...necessity of engineering knowledge. "This war," he said, "is so different in its use of machinery and mechanical equipment from other wars that it becomes important for every officer to have at least a superficial knowledge of the commonest military engineering matters. As an illustration of this, every West Point graduate is a technically trained man. Members of the R. O. T. C., if fortunate, are going to get ranks similar to those of West Point graduates and you can appreciate the importance of at least a slight familiarity with the kinds of problems at which men in the engineering...
...small body of so-called citizens there has been a systematic attempt to embarrass the Government by raising the cry: "What are we fighting for?" To these few as well as the Germans, the President has given a definite reply; his fourteen demands are clear and to the point and they, combined with Lloyd George's aims, as outlined in his last speech to the trade unionists, explain the Allied cause...