Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessity of knowing details has been impressed upon us. Glittering generalities are things of the past; the present officer must know how many men are in the Philippine Constabulary and on what date the transports leave for Hawail, otherwise he is unfit. In the old days to have some idea of the position of a soldier qualified one for an A, now to pass one must have studied Moss' Officers Notes and know perfectly what the officer's wife must take with her to the Canal Zone. The war of attrition is taking its till...
...several meetings of the tactical staff and has the approval, I believe, of all the battalion commanders. The accident of my having been the first to mention the matter at a company officers' meeting should not be used to give the impression that I was the originator of the idea. In some battalions it may seem advisable to make a complete change of officers earlier than in others but in the course of the year an opportunity to compete for the higher commissions will be open to every man in the R. O. T. C. C. C. LANE, Major...
...well as by alumni and men outside the University who are qualified to speak on such subjects. This action has been prompted by the ignorance of many people in this country, and especially those in the University and the R. O. T. C. Dean Haskins clearly phrased this idea in his introduction of Lieutenant Morize, in the first of the lectures. "The least that we at home can do" he said, "is to keep up a keen interest in the armies which are fighting...
...simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
Upon the Freshman eleven devolves the duty of upholding Harvard football this year. While none of us now take our athletics as seriously as heretofore, yet in the back of our head there lodges that idea, that conviction, that the University must live up to its record of football. Next Saturday 1921 will meet the Princeton freshmen at Princeton, and the following Saturday Yale 1921 will be their opponents in the Stadium...