Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system of citizen military education and training similar to the systems of Switzerland and Australia which will train every able-bodied male in the country, yet without making them a permanent burden upon the finances of the nation or taking them from their ordinary occupations or professions, is vital...
...summer military camps, the regular army must always remain our first line of defence. Yet our army today is pitifully small, disproportionately expensive, and inefficient. It numbers 74,000 men in the United States proper, it costs $1,000 per soldier, which is ten times the amount Switzerland expends, and the difficulty of its mobilization on the Mexican border last summer would have been ludicrous had the experience not been so serious a warning...
...Illinois, Iowa State, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Minnesota, Oberlin, Purdue, Syracuse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Yale. Dr. A. E. Phoutrides '11 and K. W. L. Sanders Sp. represented the University. In all, there were men from ten different countries present: Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, India, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States...
...learn, is illogical, prejudiced, engagingly naive, and delicately obscure. The reviewer makes the familiar assertion that large armies cause war, but offers no argument, historical or philosophical, to support it. How he explains the long peace in Europe between 1871 and 1914, whether he thinks Belgium was militaristic and Switzerland unarmed, or whether he similarly holds that umbrellas are the cause of rain, we do not know; but he scorns Professor Perry for not agreeing with him. One is forced to assume that he was not allowed to read Mr. LaFarge's clever little essay on book-reviewing, which appears...
...third concert of the season by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr. Schelling, who is a pianist and composer, has studied under many famous artists, among them Mathias, in Paris; Moszkowski, in Berlin; Hans Huber, in Basel, and Paderewski, in Switzerland. He has appeared in concerts in America since 1905. His best known compositions are "Legende Symphonique," for orchestra; "Fantastic Suite," for piano and orchestra; and many others including series of piano pieces and songs...