Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decide to apply for admission to the Federal camps for the training of officers there is a serious responsibility ahead of them. So many have gone to Plattsburg camps during the last few years for a pleasant summer outing that there is some danger that they will regard the next three months' instruction in the same light. When once accepted by the commanding officer of one of these camps, a man agrees to report at any camp signified and to accept any commission in the new army which is to be formed in the fall. The present conflict will...
...made today whether they will be allowed to conclude their year of study immediately. To do so will mean that men in receiving their degrees will have less theoretical knowledge. Laws are being made by the fierce justice of armies. The whole world is threatened by a great danger before which the petty illegalities which laws are made to prevent are nothing...
...great danger in democracy is that people resent any presence of necessary discipline as opposed to freedom; it is not necessary to Prussianize a nation through militarism, but an athlete knows that discipline and control are necessary to his own freedom in order to do his best work...
...made between the two branches of the service. One of these has charge of all the base work such as the collection and organization of supplies. The other group is concerned with the work of taking supplies from the most advanced bases to the front; and there is the danger of being exposed to shell-fire in this...
...pleasure to see you threatened by risk, danger, and sacrifice. But these are stern times, and we must do our duty. We who have known you have complete confidence...