Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief, and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent...
...honor fully the historic dead. We may know that other men in a later age will pay a like honor to us, if we prove worthy, and fulfill our destiny in a way not undeserving of remembrance...
...This is likely to prove a long, hardwar. We will all probably have ample opportunities 'to do our bit.' I want to urge men who are convinced that they are prevented by perfectly valid reasons from rendering military service at this time to do their bit now by holding...
...members of the University who has been studying aviation at the Atlantic Coast aeronautical station at Newport News, W. Va., was injured yesterday morning while taking a lesson in managing a flying-boat. Although Curtis fell from 50 to 75 feet, the accident did not prove very serious, since he received only a broken ankle...
...advantages which will accrue to the cadet from the system of training so ably laid down by the tactical staff of the Corps. Men who were good enough for Plattsburg, whether they are Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, Colby, Bates, or Tufts men, will have an unparalleled oportunity to prove what they may do. Nor is admission limited to college men. Non-college men of ability and character may here show their greater fitness to be officers above men of less ability and character, whether those are Harvard...