Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...equipment and munitions than they have been for fifty years. The most acute problem would be that of supplying a half-million men with the necessary officers. Nearly 30,000 of these would be needed and needed immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would be our most stupendous problem. Even a lieutenant cannot be trained in minor tactics, map reading, entrenchment methods, range-finding, out-post duties, company drill, and so forth, in less than three months...
That four-fifths of the entering class at Harvard cannot stand correctly even when told to is a physician's discovery which is reported in the Harvard Illustrated Magazine. Some of the four-fifths may be able to accomplish more from their faulty position than some of the one-fifth from their correct one, but the exhibit has an un preparedness look which could be improved without danger of militarism. Springfield Republican...
...come out. There are coaches on the field ready to aid men in every possible way. A track management and a graduate track committee exist for the supervision and development of track teams at Harvard. In other words Harvard has raw material, an adequate plant, and skilled workers, but cannot turn out the finished product. What is the matter with the track team...
...cannot but regret that at the conclusion of a notable career as a player and captain for his University, Captain Morgan will not have the final and culminating satisfaction of leading his team to victory...
...sparkling effort is its remarkable loquacity. It is one of those characteristically Gallio dramas in which after a full half-hour of rapid dialogue the heroine remarks to the hero: "Alors, mon ami, causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably and continue it for another half-hour. Words cannot describe the perfect Niagaras of conversation, the torrents of talk. And it is all declaimed in an incredible literary jargon which is like nothing in France, or the world, or anywhere except the boards of the Odeon and the Ambigu. The following is a good enough example...