Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...liberated world, intellectual, industrial, commercial activity begins again, no place should remain empty. On that day you, who are young, must be ready. And what your country will ask of you then will not be whether you have driven an ambulance or whether you got ahead of the draft by a few weeks or a few months, but whether you are ready to take in hand some indispensable task which must have men prepared and matured by study. You are the workmen who must do the work that has got to be done...
...opportunities been so plentiful or so pressing. The need for labor on the farms and in the shipyards is of equal value with the need of trained men for the Army. Any one who does not render help in some way is a slacker no less surely than the draft resister or the deserter...
...plans must be revised, augmented, redrawn to a more gigantic scale. We have a million and a half men in service and in training. We are calling out eight hundred thousand more in the second draft. But even that will be not enough. We can do better. We can give more...
...such a man surely deserves careful consideration by undergraduates and it would, I think, be concurred in by most older men who have thought much about the conduct of the war. At present there is no urgent demand for men under age. There are as many men on the draft lists as the War Department can call out and use in the immediate future; but if students are to follow the advice of the CRIMSON there will soon be a lack of educated young men coming...