Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...having a plain duty to perform, with no moral questions to decide. The great object, never lost from sight, was winning the victory; a man's duty his courses prescribed, was to obey orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes a self-directed unit. Unity of effort has been succeeded by dispersion of aims, due to post-bellum reversion to self-determination, both of ends to pursue and means to obtain them...
...leave. He will not go to camp as an instructor, as it was previously announced. The University military authorities expect that he will resume his instruction work here in the fall; but it is possible that he will leave the army in order to take up a position in civilian life...
...instrument of commerce and transportation. It is estimated that there are at present 175 army, navy and marine pilots in College. Of that number only seventy-five have shown sufficient interest to join the Aeronautical Society, and thus is the experience, hard earned during the war, lost to civilian advancement...