Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...fact--should be trained to be officers; some of them, manifestly, will fall short of attaining the degree of preparation necessary, but for the most part upon educated men should fall the task of leading in war. Obviously, officers should be trained better than the men they will command. I think the drill undergraduates will receive in the course we are now planning to institute will be of valuable assistance in providing that knowledge of formations, etc., so needed for proper preparation...
According to the plan of the present course all the fundamental close order and extended order drill will be learned before the summer training begins. During July and August the entire time can be devoted to instruction in the problems of terrain and the command of troops in fighting formations. The advantage of men joining the unit now rather than later cannot be urged too strongly. Some comment has been made about Military Science 1 counting as a half-course. Since every half-course in College is theoretically supposed to require nine hours' work including lectures, there is no reason...
Coach Rocque of the Yale hockey team is having a far better chance to show his ability this year with the material at his command at New Haven than he had in his two former positions at Dartmouth and with the B. A. A. team at the Arena...
...more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores and business concerns could allow for summer absences and reserve places for their employees. The officers reserve corps could be drawn upon to command the troops and thus relieve those of the regular army...