Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agree with Mr. Joslyn that the transfusion of the mere form and technique of knowledge cannot accomplish the desired result. It is the substance that we must look at; and the true substance is the basic or molding idea...
...consideration of these irremediable basic circumstances it seems that the further encouragement of nationalism will only produce painfully unrealizable ambitions. The migrations of the past have decreed that these interspersed European races should live together. The practical solution of their friction is to democratize and enlighten the federative governments under which they must live, not to attempt to divide them...
...transportation which came to a head this winter has been developing for years. Upon an 1880 system of agriculture and a 1900 system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands of an increasing population have been met by a draft on our reserve supplies and resort to temporary and makeshift means of raising production. But at last we are brought face to face with the choice of accepting a permanent scaling...
...cannot be accurately called the second-year advanced course. For in the orders published last year providing for the establishment in colleges of officers' training corps, the full training was implied to extend over a period of four years, the courses during the first two years being called the basic courses, and those in the last two years the advanced courses. But Major Flynn stated to a CRIMSON representative yesterday afternoon that Military Science 1, as given here, is generally recognized as being the equivalent of the two basic courses, and Military Science 2 as the equivalent...
...basic course in military science and tactics was this year taken by 2,067 undergraduates. Of this number 1,032 were freshmen, 956 sophomores, and the remaining 88 upperclassmen or special students. The number drilling next year will probably show some increase over these figures because of the advantages offered by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the beginning of intensive work in the advanced course, and the general feeling of unrest throughout the country with its corresponding increase of enthusiasm for military matters in the student body...