Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief deduction, however, is that the private schools offer superior training for a definite goal, they coach the boys for the "exams" upon which depend their entrance to the college of their choice, while the public schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a splendid tribute to the work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates...
Tonight for dinner the Association will be the guests of the City Club, where all members of the alumni of the institutions represented are invited to be present. President Meiklejohn of Amherst and Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston University will be the chief speakers of the evening...
...period founded on a different basis. Where in Germany, that was, and in France men were seized by the Government for three years and compelled to live the life of a professional soldier, the United States would adopt a system more of physical training. Herein, I think lies the chief safeguard against militarism in this country...
...period of not longer than six months and not less than three months men will be gathered into great camps in the various sections of the country. During this time it will be the chief aim of the instruction to better the physical condition of the men and instil in them the rudiments of fighting upon which the whole complicated system of training might be built in the future...
...general public interested in early painting, as well as an indispensable one for students and collectors. The painstaking notes on certain incomplete art treasures of which parts are housed in various European collections will make the book particularly valuable for foreign museums, and furnish a convenient summary of the chief works of interest of the period. Due to the inclusion also of the results of scholarly research on the subject of pigments and similar details of technique, the book will prove its worth to the practising artist...