Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...morale. "This morale of the army," he said, "depends upon the character of its officers. And character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...
...great moral effect on the allied powers, and, personally, I think one will be very welcome, provided it is composed of trained men. Naturally an untrained force would have serious drawbacks, as there is the transportation of food and various other matters to be considered, which are of vital importance. It seems to me that it would be best to train the men in this country first, and then send them to the European front...
...Officers' Training Corps in the American universities, and especially at Harvard, is excellent and on the right lines. I agree thoroughly with General Wood on the subject of intensive training for the R. O. T. C., and believe that the development of officers in the American universities is of vital importance to the country. They cannot do better than to carry out the Plattsburg idea of military training. I am immensely impressed with the situation in the colleges of the United States today, and the work of their members is being watched with interest by the countries on both sides...
...space allotted to verse in the Advocate--a paper with poetic traditions, if ever paper had them--and I cannot see why one whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that this word is merely a euphemism to justify an attempt...
...pictures in the number, those of the boxing tournament in the Union and Mr. Buckingham's photograph of Captain Cordier on the cover appear the most successful. It is to be hoped that future numbers of the Illustrated will contain more articles of such vital importance as the one reviewed above. There is no reason why a magazine already so good should not be better...