Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Colonel Edwards also emphasized the fact that military instruction at Columbia would be co-ordinated with the regular work of the students. Courses in heavy artillery will fit logically with the courses of the men preparing to be civil engineers, and training in the Signal Corps will be closely connected with the work of students of electrical engineering...
...already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions in the Infantry, Artillery, and Signal Service, College authorities all over the country are accepting one or the other of these alternate plans...
...Upon entering college, the matter of further military training to fit men to be officers must be decided by the college authorities. I favor military courses such as the Field Artillery Unit, which would count towards a degree, but would not take so much time that other courses would be neglected. After a year of military training, every young man would know what branch of the service he wished to enter. There should be several kinds of training given at each college to allow considerable choice. However, the completion of some one of the military courses should be compulsory...
...finished his training, the apprentice takes his place in actual work at sea in the rating for which he is trained, starting as a sailor at $55 a month and board. After two years of sea experience, he may enter a United States Shipping Board School in navigation, to fit himself for an officer's license. In three years more, he can pass through all three grades as mate--third, second, and first, in order--and his next step in promotion is to the command of a ship...
...thoroughly disgusted with the attitude which Mr. Wheel-wright has taken on higher salaries. He has no argument. His letter, which consists solely of incoherent statements and flashy phrases such as "clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...