Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the past few weeks the University's preparations for war have been sharply criticised, the chief charge against them being of mob hysteria. It has been said that we are going "warmad," and plunging into the new work forgetful of all other obligations. We thus have the responsibility of living down these imputations by the closest possible attention to the immediate tasks at hand, particularly the college work itself...
...sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected plans. We must face the situation that exists...
...present war has provided an unusual opportunity to study the influence of weather upon modern military operations. Each war zone has its own special climatic types, and present its own peculiar problems. On the western front, the chief difficulty has been the autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes...
...chief departure from the form of previous Red Books that will be made this year is the division of the book into several different sections. The groups in their order will be the major sports, the minor sports, class social activities, class scholarship, dormitory activities and military activities. These divisions will be separated from each other by full page cuts on some subject relative to the material dealt with in the section...
...meet, are not competing, Captain Russell is favored by experts to win the individual championship this year. He has improved greatly with an undefeated record to his credit and has an excellent chance to carry off the title, with the two Navy swordsmen and Pflieger of Yale as his chief opponents...