Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lectured as Exchange Professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. After about six months in this post, Professor Sabine entered the service of the French and British Governments for the special purpose of experimenting with a system whereby the range might be found for artillery by the use of a method of sound triangulation. During his experiments he was at the front a great deal of the time and in connection with his work on artillery liaison had an unusual opportunity to observe the aviation branch of the service...
...imposed upon all students who keep books more than a week. The money from fines will be used exclusively for the purchase of new books. A record of each student's use of the library is to be kept in order that the Military Office may have another method by which to ascertain the names of those who are really interested in the activities of the University...
...this is done for a considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...other old-timers. When a German general is worried as to the next move he either writes a proclamation thanking God and the soldiers for help received and promising more victories with no casualty lists, or he mentions the idea of moving right on to Paris. The latter method is apparently more fashionable this year...
...interfere in any way with military training, either because of the demands on the time of those who are trying to make the teams or because the teams occupy too large a place in the life and thought of the undergraduates, it is better to seek some other method of physical training such as calisthenics. Daily Princetonian