Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Give Your Country Your Vacation" was first raised in the recruiting campaign for the 1916 Civilian Plattsburg Camps. It should today be the motto of every able-bodied undergraduate not entering the service at once; the idler is as bad as the draft dodger. Nor can it be a question of training on one hand against war work on the other. Do both--train for six weeks for your own future call, and then work for the nation's present needs until September 23. For no man in the United States should the summer of 1918 be called a vacation...
...conference of the Association of Alumni Secretaries held last week in New Haven, that body, which periodically brings together for the discussion of their common problems the men who are directing the alumni work in American institutions of higher learning, gave special consideration to the question of alumni reunions in war-time. Indeed the entire conference illustrated the very point on which the discussion of this subject revealed complete unanimity--the point that every gathering together of college graduates at this time should subordinate all its interests to the one interest of the war. Nothing which did not bear upon...
...monopolies of production have grown up and have seemed to make the system of private property but an instrument of the fortunate. It is under such conditions that social discontent has demanded a new order. With the increasing power of universal suffrage and education there can be but little question that great changes are in store for the immediate future...
...American sympathy for Ireland there has never been any question. Ties of blood and ties of sentiment have created a union of hearts from which the Irish people have never failed to draw comfort. But there is a class of Irish agitators in this country--a few of them aliens and temporary residents--who in the emergency of the war are disposed to misuse their opportunities. From their places of safety they are bent on stirring up mischief in Ireland with the obvious purpose of giving aid to the enemies of this country. With them the great mass...
...application blanks, then the applications were closed and reopened in the space of four days, then it was decided that early examinations were necessary and that no one could go to Plattsburg without taking these early examinations, and for a time the affair was thought settled. Now the whole question has been reopened, owing to the lassitude of some colleges in sending their men, and at the last minute it will be necessary to give still another set of special finals...