Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...summer training camp as recently advocated by the Harvard CRIMSON, calling for the pooling of interests of the infantry regiments of Harvard and Princeton, the artillery of Yale, and the engineers of Boston Tech., although possessing innumerable advantages in the way of maintaining college friendships and rivalries during the war, is not to be accepted too readily until it has been thoroughly analyzed as regards practicability...
...their salaries; and producers their profits in order to give to our men in uniform the best good cheer. But, with all this, Smileage is a tremendous undertaking, and the Government feels that because it has to use every one of its dollars toward the direct prosecution of the war the public will take up Smileage as its own contribution, a gift to every soldier...
...after forget the comparatively small salary that the private gets, and out of it he still has to contribute to his family, look after his personal needs, pay for his war insurance and Liberty Bonds. What can the average private have left for entertainment? The commander of Camp Lee writes, "Such men, and we have thousands of them, certainly deserve to have their if troubles and worries occasionally erased by such recreation as the theatre furnishes." This movement is distinct and apart from the Y. M. C. A. The latter has enough of a burden...
...every man in the University is willing to forget the price of a show or two for the good cheer which these Smileage books will bring to thousands of our men. Judge Lindsay says: "Smileage is not only an inspiration, but one of the most practical things in this war. Smileage will do more to keep our boys wholesome than all other forms of free entertainment combined...
...taken up in the work this summer will be drills in close and extended order, signalling, topography, entrenchments, instruction in the use of the bayonet and grenades, combat exercises, armament, military hygiene, first-aid, camp sanitation, aeroplane photography, tactics, and the plan of campaign as demonstrated in the present war. The tuition fee will be $20 for either course...