Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Department. "Field Service Regulations," pp. 35-42. Capt. L. C. Andrews, "Fundamentals of Military Service," Ch. XX. Pond and McDonough, "Technique of Modern Tacties," Ch. X. Maj. J. A. Moss, "Manual of Military Training...
...Azan, "The War of Positions." Part III, Ch. 2 and 3. Capt. Andre Laffargue, "Attack in Trench Warfare" (Translated from the French, 1917). Pond and McDonough, "Technique of Modern Tactics," Ch. XI. Capt. Solano, "Drill and Field Training...
Robert Matteson Johnston, A.M., Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University, has, according to word received from Washington, been commissioned a major in the National Army. It is understood that Professor Johnston is to be ordered to duty in the Capitol, where he will engage in work connected with compiling an exact historical account of the war. Whether or not he will remain at the College for the remainder of the academic year has not yet been announced...
...after the-war problems will be social and moral, not materialistic. However much we may be concerned about the expansion of our South American trade, we are far more concerned about conserving the moral insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money in everyday life. The function of the college is not to copy life, but to correct...
...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...