Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to integrate and adjust the Freshmen to the House system, radically altered by the accelerated program and the surrendering of the ancient Yard to the armed forces, the unity of the newcomers must not be destroyed. Now that all undergraduates will live in the Houses, there is the dangerous possibility that in an effort to enlarge their function as centers of athletic and social life, Harvard will become a body of seven small, disconnected units. Graduating unromantically in three groups annually and participating in House activities with a limited number of their own classmates, students will tend to become...
...hoist and handle ammunition, and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Navy Protechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless power. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle Naval mines, depth charges, torpedoes, and to adjust recoil, counter--recoil, gas ejectors and firing mechanisms...
...directorscopes, periscopes and range finders. How to hoist and handle ammunition and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Naval pyrotechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless powder. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle and adjust recoll, counter-recoll, gas ejectors, and firing mechanisms...
...declaration of faith-in-himself on the part of every individual in the democratic countries, the WPM head states: "We must, to begin with, drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily, in part, because we think it does. Today change must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight...
...obvious intimacy with the world situation, stands as the most war-torn department of all the various language fields and English. The smaller departments have found that their cliques of faithful adherents will not desert them to the more warlike concentrations, and the larger have been able to adjust their programs and retain their usefulness and attractiveness...