Word: fits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the Government has definitely decided to establish a seventh additional Aeronautical School at Princeton. Six of these schools have already been organized by the Government, and opened on May 10th. This school is to be preliminary to the advanced aviation camps, where final training will be given to fit men for service in France...
...work is passed, counted for a degree, and forgotten. The course of training is for the individual man that he may become a better soldier? No one is working for marks, no one is trying to hoodwink an instructor, no one is doing the minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip by, is not gaining something at a small cost; he is not deserving his instruction...
...must be impressed upon all members of the corps that the object of this training is to fit them for service as commissioned officers. Each man should endeavor, by careful attention to instruction, by the soldierly performance of all duties and by study at odd hours, to perfect himself as an officer...
...editorial column of May 16 the CRIMSON, in a fit of noble fervor exhorting the people to be patriotic and courageous, gives them the haughty warning that, unless they are capable of showing "stamina and bravery" (which the author of the editorial undoubtedly possesses in overflowing exuberance), ten million Americans would be "of not much more value than ten million Chinese. By the stern ethics of nations," he continues, "the weak and the cowardly have no right to endure...
...exceedingly pleased to see the editorial in this morning's CRIMSON coming out squarely in support of national prohibition during the war. It was with some regret, however, that I observed that the writer saw fit to mention only one of the three great reasons for the enactment of such a measure, namely, the great saving of foodstuffs which would be brought about...