Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idea proposed by Major Lane of the first battalion is one worthy of consideration for the other battalion commanders. Major Lane suggests to change at the end of a month captains, top and supply sergeants, as well as all other non-coms. There is no doubt that in this new method of organizing the R. O. T. C. Major Lane has the whole-hearted support of the members of our regiment...
...navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value to those who navigate the air. It is true enough that meteorologists still have but a very imperfect idea of much that concerns the upper air currents, but what they do know they are now putting at the service of the men who fly. And the men who fly will, in their turn, enrich and advance meteorological science by means of the many important facts which their own practical experience...
...mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their blood. The result is the idea of a joint drill...
...dignified and stolidly established order of things is being torn to little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...
...idea embodied in this plan is similar to the scheme used in New York City the past summer to raise financial support for the Red Cross. When the University has been thoroughly canvassed, the winning team will be declared and its captain made assistant treasurer of the Phillips Brooks House Association...