Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...companies of the Reserve Officers Training Corps will assemble under arms on their respective parade grounds Friday, April 13, 1917, at 3.20 P. M., and will march as companies at 3.30 P. M. to Soldiers Field, where upon arrival they will be reported to their respective battalion commanders. Uniform service: caps and coats will be worn...
...distribution of uniforms for student cadets has given the Yard and the Square a new and martial appearance. Many hundreds of men in an uniform costume add dignity to any locality which no amount of tailor-made and individualistic civilian fashions can give...
Wars are not won by pretty uniforms. Yet men who have pride enough in themselves to keep up the honor of the uniform they wear are apt to be the kind of men who have courage enough not to fail in the crucial hour...
Whatever vestige of exterior and shallow judgments remains with us should now fall away in the levelling of war. When a thousand men are put in uniform the incipient politician may not measure the great or the near-great by examining whether their shoes are custom-made, or their hats come from New York. The prettiest fop does not show distinction in company front after an afternoon of drill in column and line formations. The assurance gained in talking to paid and obedient servants does not help greatly in telling a platoon of strong and aggressive men to deploy...
Putting men in uniform will not make all men alike, nor will it cover by olivedrab cloth a man's individuality. But it will remove those barriers of appearance which we have to some extent erected against the tides of democracy. It would be wrong to hope that every man in uniform will hail another as a kindred spirit, to be granted his friendship and his intimacy. Yet we know that true men will see other men on a plane of equality...