Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desolation like that in France. If the change proposed be made too suddenly, average New Yorkers will need a pocket guide to find their way around town with. But nothing so radical is really intended. "Of course," says the messenger of hope, "this clearing of the streets does not mean that the smooth pavement will go down by that time, because the pavement cannot be laid until several months after the temporary pavement has been laid----" In short, the change will be gradual. Nobody need fear a heart-stroke on waking some morning and finding New York finished. --New York...
...Next week there will probably be regimental manoeuvres. So you see we progress, getting larger and larger units together for each manoeuvre. This is for the purpose of solving that difficult and knotty problem known in the French Army as "la liaison." By "liaison" they mean the co-ordination of units and branches, obtained by mutual understanding of unit commanders, by runners, airplanes, telephone, wireless, etc. To win a battle in trench warfare the artillery must co-operate with the infantry, and every separate unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line...
...Lecture Hall the attendance must be thoroughly representative of the University. The room could be crowded easily, because there are thousands of people outside of Harvard who want to hear Dr. Mott tell of his experiences in Y. M. C. A. work abroad. Tomorrow, however, members alone will mean nothing. The University must be there. Dr. Mott can always address non-collegiate audiences; his talk here is the only one of its kind to be given,--he is to speak at this University and none other. The assembly then must be of a mass meeting nature and the tickets distributed...
...Crothers went on to say that he could not understand how anyone could go on doing now just what he had done before the war. "Determine to lead a soldierly life right now," he advised," and by being soldierly, I mean possessing not only the quality of obedience, but also that of generalship. Be commander-in-chief of all the forces under you power, and marshal them for the fight now and after...
...very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery...