Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smileage Books" are printed in two sizes, one containing 20 five-cent coupons and costing $1, the other containing 100 five-cent coupons and costing $5. These books will admit the soldier to whom they are given to the various entertainments at the camps. Large theatres and tents have been put up especially for this purpose in the 32 National Army and National Guard cantonments in which regular theatrical companies will give regular shows. Vaudeville from Keith's circuit by special companies who will play only at the camps will be provided for the soldiers, together with the best concerts...
...constitute a part of the army of Red Triangle workers going to Europe almost daily to help the Y. M. C. A. meet the needs of the war. More than 600 have already gone and more will follow until the Association is able to look out for every American soldier wherever he may be stationed...
...heavy popular and soldier majority against conscription in Australia contrasts strangely with America's ready acceptance of the principle, and the resolve in the same direction lately taken by Canada. Why should Australia, a more purely British country than Great Britain herself, stand out against the universal obligation to serve the cause of world liberty when America and Canada accept...
...Although not everyone belongs to a training corps yet those who do are for the most part potential commanders. Since West Point is out of the question for the great majority, and since the element of chance rising from the ranks is considerable in the case of an untrained soldier, university R. O. T. C.'s are the most accessible, and yet quite certain means of reaching high position. They form the most convenient stepping stone for many future officers...
...before athletics, and claims more than divided allegiance. We believe, also, that such public spectacles as our games with Yale and Princeton are unbecoming now, when the friends and comrades of the participants are at the front, or on their way to it, and in imminent danger of a soldier's death. Whether a modified and less formal kind of contest than we have had could escape the publicity which the newspapers are watchful in maintaining is at least a matter of doubt...