Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system of compulsory military service extending over a period of three years we would have a shorter period founded on a different basis. Where in Germany, that was, and in France men were seized by the Government for three years and compelled to live the life of a professional soldier, the United States would adopt a system more of physical training. Herein, I think lies the chief safeguard against militarism in this country...
...other words, the purpose in the United States aims at making of an ordinary man a physical specimen capable of being converted into a soldier in the event of a future war. In France and Germany the men are moulded into soldiers for instant use. While in the United States benefits from the training accrue to both the man and the nation, in France and Germany the nation only is benefited...
...rare that civilian or soldier realizes the pains and organization, not to mention heroism, involved in the maintenance of the medical service at the front. If for this alone the book should be read. Dr. Derby has, however, done much more than tell us of his own arm of the service; he has given a very vital and vivid picture of the 2nd Division...
Lieutenant L'Huillier, who gave an interesting address before the Cercle Francais two weeks ago, is military attache with the French Embassy at Washington, and he speaks, not only as a soldier of France, but as a graduate of the Universities of Paris and Dijon, speaking to fellow University...
...with the utmost punctuality, assiduity, and devotion, and with high intelligence. Why was he chosen a member of the Corporation? Not because he was a successful banker and broker of State Street. Far from it. He was chosen because he was as fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful...