Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...program of training which would permit students to be active in academic study throughout the year. The all-year college term has worked well in Europe and is now needed in America. The summer vacation must not remain an obstacle to those who desire no delay. Of the many young men who no doubt will soon enter the national service, not a few desire to go as far as possible in college before answering the call. It is the duty of our universities to provide such training. It is but in accordance with the whole spirit of the time...
Harvard leaves a wife and a young son, Peter. His younger brother, Kenneth, was killed in the British advance near Ypres last August...
...fight this afternoon with a young French officer and managed to stay on his tail most of the time. He wasn't so good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till...
...years of age. Colonel Roosevelt, who leaves Boston this morning for Oyster Bay, arrived yesterday from Portland, Me., where he had spoken at the State Republican Convention Thursday night. While stating that he firmly believed that still more universal and intensive military training should be given young men of college age, he did not propose that young men should enter the army till after attending special training camps. The age at which they should be allowed to enlist would be determined by their fitness as shown by their record at those camps. Moreover, the Colonel favored the idea of schools...
...what boys should do about enlisting I can only say what my own four boys did is what I believe to be the best policy. I am exceedingly proud of the course which they followed and the cause for which they are fighting. "If I had my way, every young man from 19 to 21 years of age would be put into a training camp forthwith and required to go into the army when he was 21 and permitted to do so if he proved fit for such service before he was 21. Speaking generally for all our colleges...