Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...community so unmilitary as Harvard University has been for many years naturally finds itself somewhat confused at the outbreak of war. There are as many different fields in the game of war for the young soldier as there are vocations for the young college graduate. Each day emphasis is laid on a new arm of the service that should be carefully developed before complete organization can be attained. It is little wonder that men in college feel the difficulty of choosing exactly the right military activity. Realizing this, the Committee on Military Affairs has already tabulated the varied departments...
...Corps of the army involves a six-months' course which may be taken during six consecutive months or for three months in two consecutive summers. During the period of training the Government will pay all expenses and in addition will give a pay equivalent to that of an enlisted soldier. After the six-months' course, the men are to be commissioned as lieutenants in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps. In time of peace these officers are liable to two weeks' training each year for five years. In case of war the men would be subject...
...produces in brave men an eagerness to be of immediate service. This is natural; it is good; but there is something better. The soldier's task requires patience in matters of which he cannot see the direct utility. Most undergraduates want to help the country in the coming conflict; but the Government itself has not yet formed in detail its plans for raising an army, or at least has not made them public, and the student is still more in the dark about the opportunities that will be open to him. Until he knows more he will do well...
...Harvard men who are to be future officers will find no finer example of an officer than General Wood, and no better motto to follow in the perilous future than, "I am a soldier, and I go where I am sent...
...play must be laid to her charge. Everything that was miraculous and lovable in the character of Joan was not enough for Miss Macpherson. Not at all; she is a dramatist. So she has seen fit to force on the Maid of France a love affair with an English soldier. Shakespere, another dramatist, always sensitive to the public taste, took similar liberties with the character of Joan, but Miss Macpherson, being a lady, stopped short of that...