Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although we may say that we have had enough training as privates, there would be in the regular cantonments a spirit of discipline impossible in a college camp. Every man who hopes to become an officer will some day have to live under this discipline; he will be much better material for an officers' camp if he has an opportunity such as this to gain the regular army spirit. In addition, an officer who has lived among the men as one of them will be more able to understand and appreciate them, and therefore to command their respect. Finally...
...University has taken new interest in Brooks House. More men and more money have been directed to its work than ever before. These men are engaged in teaching the future citizens of our land, they are leading boys to better lives and understanding; they are entertaining the blind; they are supporting the poor at law; they are supplying the needy; they are indeed the builders of a better society. College men seem to have taken a new hold on the real problems of life. In their added interest and increased support is found the success of the institution...
Briefly, the proposition of an all-college summer camp is this: will it furnish a better training to the cadet than he would receive at a Barre or a Tobyhanna? Chief among the arguments that it will is the theory of the heretofore unheard-of co-operation among different arms of the service. No longer will the infantry in an "attack" upon a position be forced to depend for artillery preparation and support upon red flags waved from hilltops. Real artillerymen will be present with real guns, the opportunities for practice in liaison will be great,--but this...
...emphasized particularly the importance of the battle-plane in controlling artillery fire, and of the bombing plane in offensive work. In speaking of the latter, he expressed the hope that America would produce bombers who would have sufficient control and training in the use of bombing-sights to obtain better results than either side has shown in the war up to the present time. He showed clearly that careful bombing would increase the efficiency of the service fivefold, and, accordingly, make one plane do the work of five...
Professor W. C. Sabine, A.M. '88, will deliver the ninth of the series of University war lectures in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on "Aviation and the War." These lectures are given for the purpose of better acquainting members of the University with conditions and customs in the warring countries. They are not open to the public...