Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...habit of obedience is unhappily too rare among the youth of this country. To this defect in their education may be traced much of the inefficiency and lack of method which too often characterize them in manhood. Our American youth stand in imperative need of military training, which alone may inculcate lessons of obedience, self-control, discipline, initiative and efficiency in teamwork...
...broke out in the social ranks at Princeton. An influential group of sophomores announced that they would not accept invitations to the senior societies and declared war on the entire club system as extravagant, demoralizing and undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
...Hereafter, in all lecture halls, section rooms, and other meetings, members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will arise upon the entrance of the instructor and stand at "attention" until he directs them to be seated, or until he has taken his seat...
...Drill Regulations, and when making reports to the sergeant-major or acting sergeant major at ceremonies, such as guard mounting (paragraph 351, Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U. S. Army, 1914), or other formation where the noncommissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets, however, should stand at attention when addressed by, or addressing, a noncommissioned officer...
...Drill Regulations, and when making reports to the sergeant-major or acting sergeant-major at ceremonies, such as guard mounting (paragraph 351, Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U. S. Army, 1914), or other formation where the noncommissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets, however, should stand at attention when addressed by or addressing a noncommissioned officer...