Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates, however, who, though they do not overwork on the R. O. T. C., have the feeling that they are wasting their time in any but military courses. They must remember that they are not here merely to mark time before being sent to a training camp. To say that we are now preparing for after the war has become a trite though necessary truism; but it is also of distinct disadvantage for a man in his career as an officer to get into bad habits of loafing. Finally, we often overlook the value of a general college education...
That Great Britain and France have given their sanction to this step is by this time certain. The attitude of the United States alone remains doubtful. No official statement has yet been issued by the State Department, but it is scarcely too much to say that our Government, if it does not actively oppose the measure, will at least refuse its assent. And this for very good reasons...
Although we may say that we have had enough training as privates, there would be in the regular cantonments a spirit of discipline impossible in a college camp. Every man who hopes to become an officer will some day have to live under this discipline; he will be much better material for an officers' camp if he has an opportunity such as this to gain the regular army spirit. In addition, an officer who has lived among the men as one of them will be more able to understand and appreciate them, and therefore to command their respect. Finally...
...underclassman has taken the attitude that no activity, college or social, can exist without him. And so, haughty and proud of his supposed fame, like the "rah-rah boy" posters, pipe in mouth, he struts through the Yard sometimes even condescending to answer the greeting of the upperclassman. To say that this is true of all present Freshmen is of course absurd. There are many who stick to old traditions and behave as they should, but these pass unnoticed in the shadow of the aggressive prep-school star...
...America's prospects in the all are not a subject for free discussion, but we may go so far as to say that those in charge of our aerial program have in eight months accomplished more than our allies could have expected...