Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Swiss Industrial and Educational Mission in America paid a visit to the University yesterday morning. The party inspected Widener Library, a number of the dormitories, and the Stadium and Soldiers Field...
...charities to which the old clothes that are collected will be turned over are the Italian Relief, the Swiss Relief, the Associated Charities of Boston, and the Associated Charities of Cambridge. These organizations will distribute the clothes among the poor of their communities...
...Swiss method of training all able-bodied young men for the work of a soldier and keeping them in reserve but always ready for immediate mobilization interferes very little with the education of the people or with their industries and earning power. The cost of this system is also lower than that of any other European system, or of the present American system. There are two provisions in the Swiss military constitution which should be copied especially. by the American Commonwealth; first, the prescription of universal physical training in all schools on a program laid down by the national government...
...Swiss Methods Valuable...
...Eliot has again come forward with a proposal for universal military service, and as the least expensive and the most democratic of the various methods for bringing this to pass, urges the adoption of the Swiss national army plan. This would entail compulsory service on the part of every able-bodied man between 20 and 45 years of age for a definite period of each year and would constitute the nucleus of an effective fighting force in time...