Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have the admirable method of reaching the universal service system by providing for universal training. As the soldiers under it gradually acquire efficiency, the mechanism of the same law would translate them into working units for the field. --Boston Herald...
...government under a universal obligation to serve in the capacity to which they might be assigned by the public authorities. All men so enrolled should be subject to the control of the government and be liable to be drafted for other service as necessity might arise. Some such method might bring about universal service for the government, performed by the civilians as well as the military and naval forces...
...have no quarrel with Mr. Wright's withering and embracing method of condemning Thackery and the British Empire. I repeat, no quarrel with the method. But, since I have sung praise of positiveness in criticizing let me remark that such opinion, no matter how ably put, is nonsense. ALFRED PUTNAM...
...Major Pendennis" is not. It is little else but a string of amatory episodes arbitrarily put together without much skill. The adapter needs a link more enduring than Mr. Drew to correlate his rosary of prettily colored beads. In a former play, "Becky Sharp," adapted on much the same method, he had such a link in the radiant personality of Mrs. Fiske. She "made" the play in the sense that through the subtle comedy of her characterization the play literally held together, a coherent, self-justified whole. It is not the fault of the star, but one cannot say this...
...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...