Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What are you supposed to be is a training school for officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance...
Furthermore, you are preparing for a still greater work. Victory will mean nothing unless the victors are ready to make use of it. In a great military operation, large reserves are necessary to exploit a success. In the war itself there is need of vast reserves of energy and of intelligence to insure, after the victory, the resumption and continuation and expansion of national activity. In every walk of life there will be empty places everywhere there will be need of trained and developed men to fill those empty places, immediately and effectively. Every one of you, in the special...
According to statements in yesterday's papers, the War Department has announced a plan under which it is expected that military training will be started next fall in practically all of the colleges over the country. Enlistments will be voluntary and officers to train the students are to be provided by the Government. If possible the War Department plans to furnish equipment to every college that enrols 100 or more undergraduates above...
...latest announcement of the War Department concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate...
...where, for reasons often of lack of equipment or officers, no military unit has been established, every opportunity will now be given to train an efficient corps. In addition, the R. O. T. C.'s that have already been established will be brought into more perfect co-ordination; the War Department will know just what results it wants from each one, and the best way to obtain these results. As the graduates of the R. O. T. C.'s will be trained uniformly everywhere, officers can be made of them more quickly and efficienly than has heretofore been the case...