Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that last year's Government school for commissioned officers, conducted at Harvard at the close of the R. O. T. C. session, and by all odds the best of its kind ever held in this country, was abandoned after only one lot of 550 of our officers, old and young, had received instruction in it. Now we know that there is no mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic...
...officer's efficiency which are possible only with years of training and upon a program of well-rounded development such as Princeton's commandant, Major John A. Pearson, U. S. A., has provided. It is the more nature advantages which Princeton now brings within reach of, those young men who desire them and who will undertake the courses of study and discipline necessary to their attainment. As preparation for service in this war, and as extension of America's military establishment for contingencies unforeseen, the curriculum offered by Princeton 18 of serious worth. Boston Transcript...
...motives which have caused and are still causing many of you to look for a place in the service before you are called are entirely worthy and noble. You feel that you are young, full of strength and enthusiasm. You realize that the first thing to do is to win--and you feel it would be extremely satisfactory both to your feelings and to your reason not merely to seize the chance of serving but to make for yourselves a chance of serving...
...Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week, the War Department says. "We need so many men, of such and such categories--and it finds them. On the day when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this...
...grave responsibility: you are like the soldier in the trenches who holds himself ready to take the place of the comrade who falls. On the day when, in a liberated world, intellectual, industrial, commercial activity begins again, no place should remain empty. On that day you, who are young, must be ready. And what your country will ask of you then will not be whether you have driven an ambulance or whether you got ahead of the draft by a few weeks or a few months, but whether you are ready to take in hand some indispensable task which must...