Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday morning the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps started their third week of intensive training, with several new subjects in their day's work. At 8 o'clock the entire Corps, meeting in 26 sections in various University buildings, had its first lesson in military topography, and immediately afterwards the men were put through the physical drill which will from this time on be a regular feature of the daily program. There followed an hour of semaphore signalling, and the rest of the morning was spent in practice on the sub-calibre ranges and in bayonet drill...
Lawrence Curtis 2nd '16, one of the members of the University who has been studying aviation at the Atlantic Coast aeronautical station at Newport News, W. Va., was injured yesterday morning while taking a lesson in managing a flying-boat. Although Curtis fell from 50 to 75 feet, the accident did not prove very serious, since he received only a broken ankle...
...However, our 100 aviators more or less are probably about as competent as the 1,500 French aviators with which France began this war. After two and three-quarters years' of this world war which has been the greatest object lesson in the value of air fighting that could well be conceived of, we have today about one-fiftieth of the number of aviators that we ought to have and that we easily might have had, if sufficient attention had been given to the matter and if sufficient money had been asked for by the army and navy...
...power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle Age," by Percival Reniers, has a poignant virtue as a "lesson for fathers," who in turn should impart to the rising generation of writers some of the distinctions between will and shall...
...placed the country in a less paralyzed, less ridiculous situation, our immediate helplessness is obviously due to inadequate and antiquated legislative rulings and to the unbelievable characteristics of a few of our legislators. The events of last Saturday and Sunday in the Senate should serve as a vivid object lesson to young men who are just leaving college. Everyone deplores the actions of our political representatives. Older men who are settled in business or some profession feel that it is impossible for them to make a sudden change and turn to politics. It is for the young men who have...