Word: based
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these five-tenths percent were recommended for rejection or discharge, and one and two-tenths percent for service organizations and development battalions. Many of these men would have been detected by general observation in the course of time, but the tests furnished objective data at once upon which to base an opinion. They also obviated the necessity of judging a man by his face and other marks of intelligence. In the various officers' groups, the engineers ranked first, being followed by field artillery, trench mortar, personnel adjutants, and ambulance company officers...
Formerly officers were promoted and selected for special schools by seniority, alphabetically, and through the personal judgment of their superiors. In order to base promotion more upon actual merit than upon chance judgment and personal bias, a rating scale was formed on the principle of ranking officers of one's acquaintance according to certain characteristics, giving each individual so many points according to whether he was best, medium, or worst, and using them as a scale for selection of the men to be promoted. In this way one had concrete and definite examples or standards rather than vague notions...
...years with the British Armies in France. The Unit is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked a hospital across the street...
Others who have received promotions are Colonel Harvey Cushing '95, consulting surgeon and formerly head of Base Hospital No. 5; Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Cameron, attached to the research department of the Army Central Laboratories at Dijon; Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Cabot '90, member of the staff of Massachusetts General Base Hospital No. 6 stationed at Bordeaux; and Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Strong, chairman of the Committee on Trench Fever, whose work in this connection was one of the great medical contributions of the war. Colonel Strong is now detached from the Army and has succeeded Colonel Alexander Lambert...
...believed the chances for a regular seven which would compete in the Yale and Pinceton were "precarious," owing to the lateness of the season, the destruction of the Boston arena, and the situation at the other universities. He also declared, however, that the re-establishment of a regular base ball team was "very probable," and although he expressed no opinion in regard to crew and track it is understood that they will be resumed as usual...