Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most important argument in favor of an All-College Camp such as we propose would be the possibilities of its relations with the Government. Hitherto, the War Department, although acknowledging the good for the cause done by individual units of the R. O. T. C., has never been able to support the best of the corps as they deserved because of the impossibility of distinguishing between institutions. If we pooled our interests which are the same to start with, namely, to increase the efficiency of future officers and men and at the same time pooled our equipment, experience, and instructors...
...They are brief, timely, pointed, sane, and well expressed. There is a letter from the former president, now at Yaphank, which is frank and entertaining. There is a short poem by Mr. Cowley, whose work always shows intelligence and distinction. There is some incontrovertible wisdom on the war by Mr. C. MacVeagh. And that is about all that one can find to praise...
From those first steps a general and lasting friendship has grown up between the service and the civilian public. The barrier between seems to have dropped out of sight for good. For the benefit of those of us who will find it pleasant to enjoy home hospitality after the war, and for the general reputation of the service, let us maintain the high reputation that we enjoy in this and in many another community. --The Oscillator...
...once since the United States entered the war has peace seemed a more distant object than today. Nor has victory ever seemed to require such titanic effort. Even the most optimistic man now knits his brow and wonders how it is all coming out. We knew last April that our task was to be a terrible one, that we were going against a mass of forces which had never before been brought together in such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed...
...source of strength. To carry on a good fight one must know what the measure of his antagonist is. Now for the first time we do know what strength is pitted against us. Now for the first do we realize that an iron-ribbed Germany is waging war with few of those ribs even strained...