Word: enlisted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pierian already have a realizing sense of their place and duty in the University, but the other clubs could certainly do more towards promoting a healthy College spirit by giving an occasional concert in Sanders Theatre. In addition, such an evident desire to please the undergraduates would enlist their sympathy in any future moves for Christmas trips...
...necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers did not happen to send them to college, and who, if they happen to be shot or to die of yellow fever, will be no great loss...
That the young gentleman who wrote this editorial should disapprove of the war and of the American government is distressing, but must be borne with patience. That there are good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition...
...Washington? No one can now tell when this war will end or what severe trouble may be in store for our nation. Every man in the University owes it as a duty to his country to make ready for some kind of service. He may be too young to enlist; he may not be able to pass the physical test; his home obligations may withhold him from going to the front; but neither age, physical defect nor home ties should prevent him from helping other men to get ready for the front. Every man in the University should go forth...
There are different fields of serviceableness to one's country. Enlist for only one motive,- the desire to serve your country at whatever sacrifice of self. Weigh well comparative duty to family and the comparative utility of the profession or occupation to which you have been accustomed to look for ward...