Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers must be decided by the college authorities. I favor military courses such as the Field Artillery Unit, which would count towards a degree, but would not take so much time that other courses would be neglected. After a year of military training, every young man would know what branch of the service he wished to enter. There should be several kinds of training given at each college to allow considerable choice. However, the completion of some one of the military courses should be compulsory for men wishing the college degree. In addition to the work in the winter, there...
...great war has taught us a lesson which we cannot afford to forget, and the only way we can profit by what we have learned is to have universal military training. Military service has awakened in our young men a great feeling of patriotism and service. It has given them confidence in themselves, and made them straight-forward, virile, and honest. I feel sure that the decrease in crime resulting from universal military service would more than cover the cost of training. If all our young men could have a year in the army, I believe that...
...regular curriculum show a realization of the prime importance of every student to prepare himself for all-around service. The creation of a great country with adequate means for its maintenance in the face of all attacks will be the ambition of all colleges, and in educating young men to meet all exigencies which may arise, they will perform a true and complete service to the United States...
...necessities of every day business are excluded from the lives of college men. They are cloistered from problems demanding instant action. To have time for study and opportunity to discuss the questions which arise in every young man's mind is invaluable to his future usefulness...
...this side of the Atlantic. Henri Emile Lavedon is one of the greatest living French litterateurs, having been a member of the Academy since 1898, and at present an officer in the Legion of Honor. The title and idea of "Sire" was suggested to him when quite a young man upon a visit to the Orleans a Blois. As he waited for his friend in a beautiful reception room, an old, white-haired woman entered and greeted...