Word: aime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These faults can be changed, and they can be changed more easily by the undergraduate than through the professor. . . . . We must take a fresh hold, make a new start. We must give up snap courses, stop vaguely dreaming through lecture hours. We must aim at some definite goal--and reach it. We must work for a purpose. Cornell...
...sooner or later by every prospective officer. In abandoning the manoeuvres within totally inadequate, buildings, the authorities have not hindered the practical training, but they have seen the absurdity of trying to secure it in a very restricted space. To make soldiers perfect in the fundamentals has been the aim of winter drill, but this cannot be obtained under conditions which provoke a loss of interest. The change is a most sensible one, for men will be learning something new instead of trying to maintain proficiency already secured...
...essential for winning a commission. The fact that this is a College course may cause men to just pass, and for that reason lose much of its value. continuous work will mean far more than a high grade; it will mean a better chance to secure a lieutenancy. The aim of this training is not scholarship, but preparation to became an officer...
...literature of fellow-men. In every instance, however, the world tries to honor in the most imperishable form it can devise, those qualities of manhood which outlast any memorial. Never can we perpetuate in a truly permanent and fitting way the valor of courageous self-sacrifice, but we aim forever to make our tribute as lasting as possible. William Meeker's death deserves the most enduring honor fellow-men are able to give, however insignificant that...
...whole-hearted immediate aim, Mr. Roosevelt concluded, must be to speed up the war in every possible way and at the earliest moment to make our military strength of decisive weight in Europe. Let us remember, he reminded his auditors, that "our troops fight abroad beside the Allies now so that at some future time they may not have to fight without allies beside their own ruined homes." This carried the 1,200 diners to their feet, cheering...