Word: nine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system in vogue in South America is modelled on the German plan. It is divided into three grades primary, secondary, and superior. A boy enters the first (I say a boy, there is no co-education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number...
...With the assistance of the French and American officers the original program of training will be carried out. About 1000 men are now enrolled in the Corps, and the number will be increased to 1500 or more. Commencing May 14, nine and one-half hours per day will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used...
...Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium...
...intensive training for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University will commence this morning at nine o'clock, when the various companies will be assembled for the day's drill. Throughout the week the men will work from 9 until 12 o'clock in the mornings and from 2 until 5 o'clock in the afternoons. Each week thereafter throughout the period of three or more months' drill will last eight hours each day, from 8 to 12 in the mornings and from 1 to 5 in the afternoons. Saturday afternoons and Sundays the men will have to themselves...