Word: unpreparedness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Military training has come to stay. The plans outlined by Colonel Goetz in his talk to Freshmen showed conclusively that the Government has established a well-organized course of instruction at the leading universities and colleges. Never again will this nation allow itself to be caught so unprepared in trained...
It is to furnish this that the Artillery Unit at the University has been formed. Those who have had no military training would do well to consider the advantages of this course. No American citizen will wish to suffer the humiliation of being, for the second time, willing but unprepared...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through...
"I am glad that you are getting up these groups," said President Lowell before a mass meeting of University men in the New Lecture Hall last evening. "I am glad because it shows that you want to know what is going on and wish to be ready to take part...
The first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value...