Word: limited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft age limit will not be reduced below 21 years at the present time, is the opinion of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, in a letter recently received by the CRIMSON. In the early part of the month communications from 66 members of Congress to the Yale News showed that although several senators and representatives favored a lowering of the draft age, a large majority opposed any change...
Governor McCall has done well to communicate to the authorities at Halifax the expression of his keenest sympathy, with the assurance that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will go to the limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before...
Rumors frequently claim that the draft limit will be lowered to nineteen years. Although European countries call for men below majority, we have been reluctant to follow their example, chiefly because younger men are not sufficiently developed. If the present system turns out the best possible army, and continues to do so, we gain by it. If, however, there is doubt as to its durability, or if men under age are as good soldiers, it seems fair to summon the latter, especially since they are less likely to have dependents. There are many between nineteen and twenty-one who have...
...case of a reduction in the age limit, colleges would probably suffer most of all. The student body would be composed largely of the unfit. We dislike the idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
...material which experience has shown best able to stand the strain of battle. The disturbance of their education, though most unfortunate, is less threatening to the country than the disruption of economic and industrial conditions which would follow the taking of men in the ages beyond the present draft limit. Of course it will not become a proper measure until after the largest possible numbers have been drawn to the colors from among the men of the existing draft ages, but if, when this has been done, need is still extant, the American colleges must, in patriotism and with good...