Word: entails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Eliot has again come forward with a proposal for universal military service, and as the least expensive and the most democratic of the various methods for bringing this to pass, urges the adoption of the Swiss national army plan. This would entail compulsory service on the part of every able-bodied man between 20 and 45 years of age for a definite period of each year and would constitute the nucleus of an effective fighting force in time...
...valuable service whose lack of acquaintance and connection with business concerns will prevent them rendering it. Such men, without an organized survey of capabilities and needs, are likely to drift into comparatively unimportant summer employment for which they may not be especially fitted. To be sure, this undertaking would entail considerable expansion of the College Employment Bureau or the creation of a new organization. But the labor or two thousand men for four months is net an insignificant item in the present crisis. Its effective distribution is worth all the effort it would cost...
That holding the nine o'clock classes at eight o'clock "of course", would "economize coal," I would be given to deny even after considerable thought. Certainly the lecture and recitation rooms would have to be heated an hour earlier in the morning, which would entail absolutely no saving in fuel heat. And, as for the question of lights, I am fairly positive that at this season of the year when the sun is hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight...
...number of men applying for admission into the Corps. Now that the University authorities have made it possible for further enrolment many men who at first found it impossible to join the unit on account of laboratory classes ought to reconsider the question. Although the new drill hour will entail greater effort and the purchase of sundry alarm clocks, the chance of receiving an adequate training for an officers' commission is well worth the sacrifice. Since the training unit at Harvard is limited by the rules of the War Department to twelve companies totalling 960 men, a Machine-Gun Company...
...England Federation of Harvard Clubs will open its annual convention with a business meeting of delegates at 2.30 today. The meeting, which will be held at the Harvard Club, will be presided over by President Eliot, and will entail the usual routine of business, and such special topics as may be introduced by the delegates...