Word: arming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...London Spectator, in an editorial entitled "De Minimus," says: "It is good for every man's character that there should be some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered from the tyranny of the long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College...
...twice the Yale punter had to reach and take the ball with one hand. Inaccurate passing of the sort against a sharp defence may get the Elis into trouble. The tendency of most of the Yale backs was to run high and they did not use the straight arm at all. Braden was one exception. He ran low with terrific power both in carrying the ball and in interference. The power of the Yale line and backfield, to sum up, is extraordinary; the present problem is to speed up the machine. If this can be done there is no telling...
Manager N. E. Burbridge '17 of the University team is laid up with an infected arm...
...main work in the box during the season was done by W. B. Felton '19, who prepared at Milton Academy, and H. Coolidge '19, of St. Mark's, who was also on the pitching staff, injured his arm early in the season and the main work fell entirely upon Felton and Coolidge. Felton, as a rule, shows good control but Coolidge has been somewhat erratic in his work on the Freshman team. C. F. Fuller '19, who did the receiving, showed the value of his experience at Groton, and should make a capable assistant to R. Harte '17, next year...
Equipment of all kinds necessary for the training of officers of the several arms of the service--Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Engineers, Coast Artillery Corps and Signal Corps--will be furnished, and every opportunity will be given men to select the arm of the service in which they believe themselves best fitted to serve...