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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...text book idea of this country's isolation in world affairs has been conclusively disproved by recent events," said Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, in his talk to the Freshman Debating Society in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "We must recast our whole ideas of European relations. The first thing to be done is, of course, to get an army; and few realize that this takes time. It would be six years before a first class force of troops could be created to compete with any of the Powers...
...season, held in the Varsity Club last night. Captain G. E. Abbot '17 announced that battery practice for both University and Freshman players will start today at 2 o'clock, and the fielding candidates will be called out two weeks later. Abbot introduced Coach Hugh Duffy, who said that much depends on the mutual understanding and enthusiasm of the players. After promising every candidate careful consideration he said: "I pledge my best efforts; with your help success is assured...
...Nichols said: "We need the undivided support of every one of you if we are to come through against Princeton and Yale this spring." He also spoke very highly of Captain Abbot and Coach Duffy, and said that strict training both for condition and discipline, will be rigidly enforced as soon as outdoor work commences...
...officer competent to take his place in the complicated organization of a battleship must be an intensively trained man. It has been said that the average line officer of the Navy must know all that the officer of corresponding grade in the army knows, plus his own specialized technical knowledge. That is a statement not far wrong. The modern sea-fighter is a "soldier and sailor...
...burden of supplying the country with military aviators will fall on the college undergraduate," said Mr. Amory. "If the United States in the event of war organizes an army of 1,000,000 men at least 10,000 military aviators will be required to supplement it properly. Aviators must be young men in the prime of life and in the best of health, and, furthermore, the successful military aviator must have the equivalent of a college education or at least be on a level intellectually with the average college undergraduate." He pointed out that the French and German aviators...