Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficult for us to realize how strenuous the food situation abroad is until we consider that 300,000,000 must be fed, and that 40,000,000 have been taken out of productive forms of work. Each bushel produced here now means a great deal to the progress abroad and makes the disposal we are to make of the summer seem very vital. We are not planning a summer lark, but the most effective way to spend fifteen weeks...
...rapid progress of the new companies is due in large part to the formation of the so-called "Recruit Detachment" in which all recruits who have had little or no military experience are placed. Formerly the new men were distributed throughout the four companies, but as this system held back the men who had been drilling several days, the Recruits' Detachment was started this week to take care of the inexperienced men. The recruits will be trained until they are considered sufficiently well drilled to join the other companies when they will probably be distributed in the provisional battalion...
Professor Zueblin is the author of "American Municipal Progress." "A Decade of Civic Development," and "The Religion of a Democrat." He formerly held the chair of sociology at the University of Chicago...
Professor Zueblin formery had a chair of sociology at the University of Chicago. He has served on various boards and commissions dealing with sociological research, and is at present editor of the Twentieth Century Magazine. He is also the author of "American Municipal Progress," "A Decade of Civic Development, and "The Religion of a Democrat...
...four companies of recruits were formed into a third battalion, and were put through the elements of military drill by the four Army Sergeants who are acting as company commanders. The progress made by this battalion, even in one day, was most encouraging. Today the recruits will be issued rifles, and will receive their first instruction under arms. Each company will report this morning at 9 o'clock at the place designated by the commanding sergeant when it was dismissed...