Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Colonel Roosevelt, President of the United States for seven years, hero of the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, big-game hunter, and scholar attained a rank higher than any graduate of the University. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and prepared for College with private teachers. In the University he became one of the most prominent men in his class. After his graduation in 1880 he studied one year at the Columbia Law School...
...Student Council will meet in the CRIMSON Building this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The chief purpose of this meeting will be to organize the Council and reestablish all University and class activities on the pre-war basis. Class elections will also be considered. All members of last year's Student Council should attend this meeting...
After his return Colonel Roosevelt devoted his time to writing and speaking, except in 1912, when he became the candidate of the Progressive Party for President. His articles on preparedness were most widely read and discussed just before this country entered the war...
...urges the adoption of the Swiss national army plan. This would entail compulsory service on the part of every able-bodied man between 20 and 45 years of age for a definite period of each year and would constitute the nucleus of an effective fighting force in time of war...
...point to quash every scheme of national defense which savors of compulsion or armament, whether or not such a course be in fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant our hopes, it is a matter not only of national honor but of stern necessity, to maintain a trained fighting force as an instrument of defense in time of war. Our nation may count itself fortunate for being saved...