Word: haphazard
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Colonel Logan's fear of Prussianism seems slightly unnecessary. Such men as President Roosevelt and General Wood have repeatedly pointed out the dangers of the haphazard volunteer system and the fallacy of leaving national defense to the most brave and patriotic...
...work in military science has been combined in a single course; next year the two phases of work will be distinct with as much time devoted to the former as is now given to both. The change here is important. For this year the military schedule has seemed somewhat haphazard. In 1918-19, however, the time to be given to recitations, reading, lectures, and similar exercises will be constant throughout the year...
...regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public labor exchanges have helped towards efficiency, but they have in general signally failed to organize the labor market even in the skilled trades, and have completely passed by the great mass of unskilled labor. Even at the present time when...
This whole haphazard business must stop now. A few more such occurrences will show us unworthy of the Government's patronage, for we do not want to have the R. O. T. C. merely a motley array of undergraduates in uniform. It is recognized as a military organization and that it must remain. Discipline among friends is a difficult proposition; there is a constant temptation to visit the top-sergeant tell him a sad story about how much work you had, and then remind him of what good friends you two have always been. This is the easiest...
...place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely to be much more disconcerting to the people at the other...