Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant fact, nevertheless, it that three men mention the belief that the War Department wants to call the younger men. "I believe it will be lowered to 19 on account of the opinions held by the War Department," wrote Senator Kirby of Arkansas. Representative Mott of New York thinks that "military authorities are unanimous in maintaining that it should be as low as that." Hon. Bertrand H. Snell thinks that the younger men will be called for training but will not be sent across the water until they...
...recent editorial in your columns you wrote, "most of us are out of sorts chafing at enforced inactivity. . ." Altho I have no quarrel to pick with the main point of the article concerning the desirability of a sense of humor' I do think the above quotation raises a point deserving consideration. The words that I refer to in particular are 'enforced in activity...
...comfortable library and fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books" has been proved remarkably presumptuous long since. Man must read and our army is composed of men, not animals...
...have taken pains to inform myself about the plan and am warmly in favor of it," wrote Elihu Root, former Secretary of War and recently United States Senator from New York...
Although he wrote but little, Mr. Wendell's published works show his ideals and plans and describe his activities with great vividness. Among these articles are "An Ideal in College Athletics," published in the Monthly of December, 1888, and "Boys' Clubs," which was later quoted by Jacob A. Riis...