Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Western Reserve has announced a decision which may point the way to a precedent in American academic life far broader than any the university had in mind in passing its present resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
...public control. Since that time concession after concession has been demanded of the railroads until just before our entrance in the war they were scarcely able to make both ends meet. Rates had become so low and restrictions so stringent that all improvements or new investments were impossible. The point had been reached where private industry and even a fair transportation efficiency were incompatible...
...desired. Many complain of politics; graft has at times been rife; inefficiency has characterized and will continue to characterize many branches of our military machine. On the whole, however, our horizon is brightening as we are finding our war-time stride. The prospects of the coming year point to a great weight in America's participation in the world struggle...
...training in this division, which is to be the largest of the four, will be very intensive during the first few weeks of the camp in order that cadet officers and non-commissioned officers may be selected for the summer. The work will follow the training given at West Point with proper adaptation to the needs of a three months' camp. In addition to instruction in the drill regulations, however, the men will be taught methods of attack and defence in the present war, including the occupation of front line trenches, night patrols and raiding...
...general officers, which was begun at Camp Devens yesterday, should do more to build up coordination among all the arms of the service than any other effort yet undertaken in the cantonments on this side of the water. Its story, however, has not all been told when this point has been set down to its credit. Another great advantage of the new school is the recognition it gives to the fact that no man can successfully be both teacher and pupil at the same time. In all his work as chief of the American Expeditionary Force, General Pershing has admitted...