Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges have yet taken direct steps toward the organization of military units. They have rather been occupied in getting back to a pre-war basis after the disrupting effects of the S. A. T. C. There is, however, a firm determination that military training shall become a reality, and the conviction created from experience that the University is the proper place to provide the requisite technical training. Hence, the present chaotic ideas upon the system and methods to be employed will, perforce, have to be straightened out before the opening of the colleges next fall. In the meantime...
...administration by attacking the League. When the revised plan is presented to the United States for its consideration and approval it must not in any way be regarded as a party matter, but instead be dealt with in the same broad manner in which the nation considered its emergency war legislation...
...Merchant Marine Offers a remarkable field for advancement to a young college student. It is an entirely new opening, and one which is full of opportunity for an enterprising man. During the war, the United States began building its huge fleet of merchant ships which is rapidly nearing completion. Fully 65,000 officers and men will be needed for the ships coming out in 1919 alone, and the demand is acute for intelligent men, especially those who have had some naval experience, to man these ships...
Even to those who have other fields as their ultimate aim, a year in the Merchant Marine would not be wasted. Many men have found that their adventurous spirit was whetted by war experiences, and are not content to resume the uneventful existence of their pre-war days. For men of this sort, the Merchant Marine, with its voyages and experiences through the seven seas, is the one vehicle by which such restless young Americans can gratify the spirit of pioneering awakened by the world war...
...article in the Daily Princetonian, President Hibben, in urging the support for the course, said: "The course as outlined by the War Department is designed to give a very thorough grounding in all of the principles of artillery, both in theory and in practice. Through such a course one will be able to qualify as a Reserve Officer and be in a position to offer his services to the government in case of any emergency, without the delay of long months of preparation, Its particular aim is to increase alertness, accuracy, and resourcefulness of thought, the art of working...