Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officer competent to take his place in the complicated organization of a battleship must be an intensively trained man. It has been said that the average line officer of the Navy must know all that the officer of corresponding grade in the army knows, plus his own specialized technical knowledge. That is a statement not far wrong. The modern sea-fighter is a "soldier and sailor...
...trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...
...army is just like a football team; it will be good or bad according as the team knows signals and automatically carries those signals out when the occasion presents itself. The Provisional Battalion will make it easier for men to know the signals and respond to them, in the event of a training camp here; and in any event, it will be beneficial in making Princeton men better prepared...
...study history, psychology, above all literature, that we may know men, and the motives that lie behind their actions. If we do not formulate some philosophy of life in all our studying, then our learning is nothing, and we have failed...
...never identical and one man is never twice the same. No man is so shallow as easily to be passed in contempt. Every individual represents a bundle of ambitions, of abilities and weaknesses, that you, as trained college men, must know...