Word: manual
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduated from Cornell University, receiving a degree in mechanical engineering. After receiving his degree he held a position at the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, and later became instructor at the Manual Training High School of that city...
When the R. O. T. C. performed before Colonel Azan two days ago, an opportunity was offered the corps to redeem itself for the wretched showing before Colonel Applin a week before. During the week, we had benefited from the fervent practice of the manual which had been the rule, and we felt that there was general improvement. Accordingly, we waited with some measure of confidence for Colonel Azan's judgment...
...only fair method of selection and it would strike rich as well as poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only way to put the workmen, manual and intellectual, in the places where they would do the most good. In the higher intellectual classes a type of conscription is already in force, only this selection is done under the guise of an invitation to do Government work elsewhere. Schwab, Ryan and even Hughes are examples of such...
Colonel Applin saw the Regiment only when we were leaving Fresh Pond to return to Cambridge. He could see then, as I did myself, that the manual of arms was somewhat listless, that our band played, with an irregular rhythm, tunes of a rather funereal character, and that the marching lacked energy and snap. These criticisms do not surprise me at all: I expressed them many times after each exercise, and especially at the beginning of a recent lecture...
...Manual for Commanders of Infantry Platoons...