Word: united
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these men with no delay. It is possible that the ship will be convoyed through-out the voyage, but this is not definitely promised. The new men from the University will probably remain in Paris less than a week before being sent to the front. In addition to the unit from the University, the American Ambulance will send over about 20 men from other colleges. Another unit sailed with the Harjes men last week...
...speaking of next summer, Captain Milling regarded the question of establishing a school at Squantum as almost entirely one of personnel. Such a proposition seems doubtful. Although the University men will be treated individually as regards their applications, they will be trained at a Government School as a unit and will be naturally given precedence over an equal number of individuals who have not studied together...
...cancelling all engagements for intercollegiate contests until the "imminence of war" is past. In the Faculty did this it would be considered unwarranted oppression, and would fail of its intended moral effect. If we do it ourselves it will add, directly and indirectly, more men to the training unit than any other possible action, and its example will be felt throughout the country. It is easy enough to call others to make sacrifiees for their duty--it is simpler, but rarer, to make the sacrifices oneself...
Those who have enlisted in the unit have done all they can do now. What about those who have delayed? Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses. They are merely evidences of despicable indifference to the highest duties that American citizens ought to be proud of fulfilling. The need of the hour is for action, action, action...
...young men of the country are fast realizing the task before them. Princeton is forming a volunteer battalion, Yale has a unit of the R. O. T. C., and Cornell has already enrolled 2,000 students in its military department. Harvard men have never been slow in the past to see their duty, and they have never sidestepped The desire of every student to become an officer rests on the well-known fact that the first call for volunteers will create a need for many more commissioned men than exist at present. The quickest and most thorough way for anyone...