Word: young
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...situation of these young men will not be other than trying. They will inevitably feel somewhat "out of it", though most of them, it is safe to say, would give all they possess to stand with the military majority. As a class they will deserve every bit of recognition and encouragement which the College and its members can give them. In their hands will lie an important element of the future. It is for everybody to help them realize this fact, and to speed them on their difficult way. The Alumni Bulletin...
Seven allied activities, all endorsed by the Government are combined in the United War Work Campaign, with the budgets distributed as follows: Young Mens Christian Association $100,000,000, Y. W. C. A. $15,000,000, National Catholic War Council (including the work of the Knights of Columbus and special war activities for women $30,000,000, Jewish Welfare Board $3,500,000, American Library Association $3,500,000, War Camp Community Service $15,000,000, Salvation Army...
...This new policy aims to accomplish a two-fold object: first, to develop as a great military asset the large body of young men in the colleges; and second, to prevent unnecessary and wasteful depletion of the colleges through indiscriminate volunteering, by offering to the students a definite and immediate military status...
...Throughout the war, Harvard should continue summer camps for intensive training, open not only to Harvard men but as broadly as possible to all men properly qualified, particularly those too young to attend the Government camps...
...This war, I hope, is going to end the power of force in the world, but it is not going to end time nor blot out the human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...