Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Company in Portsmouth, N. H., and on completion will be shipped to Hartford and set up in the Armory. The battery men who take the training will spend a week in Hartford where they will be instructed in the care and use of the balloon, and will become thoroughly familiar with its construction...
...difficulties of instruction in the various fields of engineering have been mastered; but the engineering training has not yet been successful in making students able to meet social requirements easily. To solve this problem several innovations have been made. One is to urge and expect students to become familiar with the activities in the various fine arts which are available in the city. A library is being fitted up, designed especially for students to use in their leisure moments...
...unsurveyed region. After visiting a number of the important mines and milling plants in the district, the party, with a light equipment, went with a pack train through the mountains. Detailed work, followed by the trip through the mountains, made it possible for the men to not only become familiar with a large number of geological phenomena, but to appreciate better the great physical history of the mountains, and through the emphasis of physiographic methods, to understand the present forms of relief in the region. The party was fortunate in not having any serious accidents occur, and the pleasures...
...partisan literature may be divided into two classes, the German American propaganda with which everyone is familiar and which includes such books as "England a Pirate Nation," "England's Perfidy Exposed," and such publications as "The Fatherland," and the regular newspapers of England, Germany, France Italy, and Austria. The most important of these are the London Times the Westminster Gazette, Le Temps, Le Figaro Corriere deila Sera (Milan), Neue Freie Press (Vienna) Neueste Nachrichten (Munich), and the Allgemeinge Zeitung (Berlin). In addition to these papers, which will be filed throughout the war a set of American Notes, published...
...just taken by the Yale students in endeavoring to free the managerial elections from the yoke of fraternity domination will be salutary. Nevertheless, election, even when purged of all impurities, can never hope to compare favorably with competition based on efficiency; for it will never secure men so absolutely familiar with their jobs, and so thoroughly competent to administer them. Competition has the further advantages that it fosters democracy by throwing the candidate in with men of every kind, and that it furnishes the most important non-athletic activity in college. Finally, it brings out latent ability rather than rewards...