Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Officers' Training Corps last evening at the regular lecture period. Captain Dupont, who speaks excellent English, delivered his address himself, devoting the time to an introductory description of the various types of shells and to a discussion of their respective values under different conditions. By tables and diagrams he pointed out the penetrating power of high explosive shells of the several calibres, explaining its variation according to the weight of the projectile and its angle of incidence. The use of shrapnel was also discussed with reference to its effectiveness and potentiality. Captain Dupont treated his subject from the point...
...year Harvard Law School's decision to postpone the intended celebration of its first centenary is doubtless wise. Yet no delay of the outward formalities can change the fact that the school does come at this time to the close of its first hundred years, and hence to a point when all alumni and friends of the school will do well to reflect upon its splendid course in the past and to help provide funds for its continuing service in the future. To this end it is good news that copies of the school's history, as lately prepared, will...
...course given at Cornell is divided into two parts, the preliminary three weeks of drill and tactics followed by five weeks of lectures and laboratories, interspersed with calisthenics and one hour of drill each day. The discipline will be substantially the same as that of West Point and weekly examinations will be held to determine the standing of each man. Those who do not do good work will either be put back and have to repeat part of the course or else be recommended for dismissal from the school...
...production of "Caliban" at the Stadium the latter part of the month for the benefit of the Red Cross and the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps is an event of more than passing moment. In point of fact, and entirely aside from the objects, it will be one of the most magnificient outdoor dramatic productions ever seen in this section of the country...
...Quartermaster-General's Department has called for a limited number of stenographers to serve in the Transport Office on shore at the point of debarkation in France with United States troops for the duration of the war. These men must be university alumni or students in their junior or senior year. A knowledge of French is desirable, although not necessary. Successful applicants will receive $1,200 per year with rations and quarters...