Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe in the Volunteer system. It promotes the individuality of men and allows them the pride which comes from having done that which one is compelled by no exterior law to do. The volunteer system allows for the slacker who trusts that his own shirking will be overlooked in the generosity of others...
...such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...
...only be judged adequately when the coach is given a reasonable amount of material to work with. The chief fault lies, as usual, with public opinion, which should, and must in the future, make life as unpleasant for the armchair-athlete as it is today for the able-bodied "slacker" in Europe...