Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already too absorbed with their own work as teachers to be qualified also as good pupils. Moreover, the advanced schools, under these conditions, could not be organized with the completeness and extent of curriculum essential to the development of anything like full co-ordination...
...work of many high office-holders. A great part of it has been only too well justified. Republicans and Democrats alike, however, must admit that the President has led the country in all fairness and to the best of his ability since we entered the war. The task of organizing a great military machine is in any case great; in a country possessing no machinery for its accomplishment it is of tremendous difficulty. There have been many mistakes in the war's prosecution, and perhaps not a few of them have been due to partisan causes. But the bulk...
...this summer's camp will not equal last year's, provided that the Military Science men of this University enrol. They will be the "brains and spinal cord" of the regiment without them discipline and efficient instruction will be impossible. Until we can become officers there is no better task open to us than to teach others what we have learned and thus start them on the road to commissions. The preparatory schools of New England will flock to this camp; it is up to every one of us to do our part in teaching them the few fundamentals which...
...attitude as your cherished capital, but wait--wait till those who are entrusted with the destinies of your country call on you to contribute it. By so doing, in the first place, you will be carrying out the wishes of your country. Certain men have been assigned the heavy task of organizing the resources of the nation for this tremendous struggle. They know where men are to be found, and what are each man's qualifications and abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week...
...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...