Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...encouraging. There have been unmistakable signs of slackness in the college routine, for instance, in the preparation of the annual study cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...
...discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service as a matter of course, as he accepts the fact of compulsory education in more conventional but not more important branches of learning. --Cleveland Daily News...
...small fraction of that number, and even in the regular army there is scarcity of officers competent to take hold of a body of men and instill in them the principles of obedience and discipline and the rudiments of modern military science. But the regular army man, no matter how limited his practice may have been in that kind of work, is in the way to master it quickly. With the reserve officers the task will be harder, but they will all have had some sort of training before they begin to train others. There will be no question...
...spring recess brings two matters of clear duty before members of the University, one for those who are already enlisted in some branch of the service, and one for those who have not yet determined what course to follow. The statement given out last night by Dean Yeomans comes as a serious reminder at an opportune time. Since severance of connections with the University means also giving up the opportunity of a reserve commission, preparation during the recess for the final examinations is a matter of patriotic duty for members of the R. O. T. C. The examinations start five...
...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...