Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...departments of our colleges and universities, that after a year, they may return to civil life, retaining their commissions as officers of the reserve. Next, he suggests that such institutions as already have military training go a step further and establish regular military departments, in which those desiring to fit themselves for the military profession might study the theoretical branches underlying that profession, as is now done at West Point, while at the same time undergoing a more extensive and intensive practical military training than that now required of other students." These departments should, he declares, be established by Federal...
...view of Congressman Gardner's assertion that this country is totally unprepared for war, would it not be a good plan for Harvard to fit her men, so that if war should come they would be better able to serve their country? "In times of peace prepare for war" is an axiom which, although little heeded in this country, has been proven by Germany to be only too true. Two hour's drilling a week would not materially disarrange the life of the students. Besides preparing them for an emergency, the drills would be beneficial in a moral and physical...
...tried by a convicts' court, the silence rules have been greatly alleviated, the supervision is now much less strict and other similar changes have been made. The attitude of the prisoners has changed remarkably, and everything indicates that in time the men who leave Sing Sing will be really fit for citizenship in the outside world...
...there is unfortunately no ice fit to play on at Pomfret, the game which the Freshmen were to have played there this afternoon has been called off the there seems little prospect of arranging another contest with Pomfret this season...
...this gathering demands for its success the united support of the class, and there is opportunity for each individual to back the dance loyally. Although membership in the Union is a requisite of doubtful wisdom in such a class affair, the fact remains that those in charge have seen fit to require those who attend to join the Union. There is no reason, indeed, why payment of the Union initiation fee should be considered as an additional expense of the dance; rather should the dance be considered as another benefit to be derived from the Union. At any rate...