Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers in our army. We have now only a 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...
...instinctive, as any father of a family can testify. There are, to be sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected plans. We must...
...Harvard Health Talks" is a series of volumes giving the substance of lectures given in the Medical School from time to time. It aims to present in a popular form the most modern and authoritative information on medical subjects of universal importance. Its editors are Edward Hickling Bradford '69, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, emeritus, and Dean of the Medical School; Harold Clarence Ernst '76, and Walter Bradford Cannon '96, professors in the Medical School...
...University Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will give a joint concert for the benefit of the Radcliffe Choral Society Scholarships in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The program will include selections from the Madrigals, from 19th century composers and from modern Russian church music. In addition a special chorus will render three songs by the French composer Debussy that have never before been given in this country, except at the recent Lowell Institute lectures by Dr. A. T. Davison...
...outlining the main features of modern warfare, Captain Ian Hay Beith emphasized the new significance of the airplane. It has passed out of its period of experimentation and into a new sphere of deadly effectiveness--spying out the enemy's territory, directing artillery fire, raiding hostile encampments, and making surprise attacks impossible. Briefly, "the command of the air determines which side shall gain the victory...