Word: mains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main problem which was before the psychologists in the Great War was to put "the right man in the right place" and to place him quickly. For this purpose, several co-ordinate methods were devised, the most interesting being the psychological tests, the trade tests, the classification system, and the rating scale...
...biggest problems facing the University is the formation of a new military program. There are two main questions to be decided. Shall the military courses be compulsory? And shall the chief concentration of study be in infantry or artillery? As regards the first of these a compromise seems the wisest course. If military science were compulsory the Freshman year and elective after that, it would serve all its purposes. It would give every undergraduate some knowledge of the military game and would offer an opportunity to those who desired to become experts. A man with four years of military education...
...main interest centres around the characters of Captain Bairns-father's "Three Muskrats": Bert, Alf, and Old Bill. Mr. Edmund Gurney, as Old Bill, seemed to have stepped right out of "Fragments from France." A fine old walrus he was, blowing his drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn...
Theodore Roosevelt carried out the main teachings of his University every hour of his life. His own studies in Harvard were partly scientific, partly economic and historical, not especially suited as a basis for statesmanship. Only what he elected he studied with his mind, and what he did he did with his might...
...main purpose of the meeting will be to organize and put on a running basis not only the Council itself, but class activities in general, which have been dormant since last year. Class elections will be considered at this initial meeting, and dates for the election of the class officers including the elected members of the Council will probably be determined...