Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months and subsequent armies of equal size in the same time...
...have undertaken to free Belgium, Poland and Roumania and to become one of the members of a league to enforce peace. How can we enforce peace or bring about a lasting freedom for those countries if we do not have an adequate army? If we should adopt the Swiss system we would have a large citizen army which could be called into action at any moment...
President Eliot next called attention to the fact that the Swiss Government has indirectly and important supervision over children as soon as they are eight years old. At that age the boys are given gymnastic training, and three years later they are given practice in marching and drilling, and some training in the manual of arms. Gun clubs are formed with regular army muskets and and cartridges supplied by the government, and the boys soon acquire the skill which has made the Swiss soldiers the best marksmen in the world...
During the summer of his 20th year the young Swiss must pass a physical and literary examination, and then he enters intensive training for 60 or 75 days. From the age of 20 to 32 they are called together for 16 days every year. After that year they are in a class of trained reserves liable to call at any moment
...public liberty. This seems to me the only and the sufficient, contribution which universities should make toward national defence. In the present highly developed condition of warfare on land and sea, there is only one way of providing for the national defence, namely, universal military service of the Swiss sort...