Word: learns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their...
...address given in the Catalogue. Students desiring their reports sent to addresses other than those in the Catalogue must give written notice on cards for this purpose which may be obtained at the Delivery Desk. No reports are sent to third-year students unless specially requested, as they may learn the results at the Secretary's Office before Commencement...
...preparing for that School, to cease their course of study and go at once into active service. Few things could be more unfortunate. It is not possible that we may have a surplus of doctors. It is possible that we may have a dearth. Those who learn are no less serving than those who drill. In a year's time a graduated doctor may be worth more to his nation than three first-line officers, and be the cause of saving more lives than fifty times his number of the enemy can destroy...
...Under the Argentina system the training starts in the schools when the boys reach 12 years. Until 15 they learn drills, and at that age they take up the rifle and continue to practice with it until 20. Upon reaching this age they are certified to the war office and selections are made. Young men who are the main supports of their families are excused. The younger men selected are required to serve with the colors for one year in the army or two years with the navy. The man does not make the selection of either force. The heads...
...care" attitude of the citizen who has never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed...