Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Enrolment must be speedy and complete. Every man must do his bit and his best to keep the Regi- ment "in the pink of condition" and at the height of efficiency. Let us show the country, each one, of us by his own individual effort, that we mean to put this thing through. Let us show the Government that we can equal, if not beat, them at their own game. Let us show the alumni and the University that we appreciate what they have done for us. And finally, let us show our French instructors, and through them the splendid...
...other members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. Unit are strongly advised to stay in the unit. An effort is being made by Captain Cordier to have the Harvard Unit put on the same basis as the Federal Training Camps--that is, so that members of this unit of the prescribed age can be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps at the end of three months' intensive training on exactly the same footing as men who go to the Plattsburg and other Federal Training Camps...
...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...
...conflict among themselves should so promptly subordinate their individual and competitive interests in order to advance the general welfare of the country, and that if the committee in charge of the railroads takes hold of the situation as promptly as he thinks it will, the result will be to put off for a generation any serious question of governmental ownership and operation...
...armies in the field that it is not desirable to cut out athletic sports however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us it is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled condition there is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may with entire fitness continue...