Word: manifoldness
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...American camps, on the other hand, in so far as we have allowed officers any additional instruction after they have completed their first "Plattsburg" training and received their commissions, it has been given them chiefly in conjunction with the manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already...
...regiments of engineers, and just as we have the Railway Engineers in France today we could have shipbuilding and munition regiments, farming regiments scattered in squads or platoons where they are most needed. Such an arrangement would satisfy the pride of the laboring classes and simultaneously improve the situation manifold. The present situation makes such or a similar reform essential...
...patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment and munitions have convinced some manufacturers that their obligation is fulfilled by the mere fact that they are in the business. The incentive of competition for customers or employment being removed, producers of the manifold war requirements are spending too much energy in determining the size and distribution of their compensation, too little in making their product equal in value and amount to the enhanced price paid...
Each of the manifold schemes for the pacification of the world proposed by liberal statesmen applies the theory of national self-determination. This principle, in short, provides that every racial or linguistic group possessing a sense of national unity should freely choose the alternative of amalgamating itself in some larger state, of becoming an autonomous fragment of some larger state, or of assuming the status and privileges of sovereign independence. But while it is comparatively easy to take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian...
...Manifold aspects of the world struggle will be treated in the course. Commandant Azan and other officers of the French Mission will describe phases of the actual warfare employed in Europe; Professor E. F. Gay will discuss the economic side of the conflict; Professor R. H. Lord and Dr. J. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 will detail the historical antecedents; and Professor A. B. Hart '80 and others will consider a more strictly national viewpoint. An extra examination hour will be added for those who wish to take the course...