Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations of service. It involves a point...
...appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters...
Wilkins' plan is to equip the submarine with an ice drill, capable of piercing 50 ft. of ice from beneath, to enable him to stop the craft under the polar ice pack, take on fresh air, recharge batteries, make observations. A trolley riding on the under side of the ice would indicate the position of the boat. A pressure lock would enable men in diving suits to leave and re-enter the submerged ship...
...Education. "If and when the high schools and colleges devise methods which select and retain their students more wisely, arouse in the great majority of them real intellectual interest . . . and equip them for life more skilfully and promptly, co-education at those ages might conceivably be advisable...