Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present schedule we shall have something like two and a half million men in service and in training when the present year of the world's travail ends. We ought to have twice as many. The more men we give the quicker the task will be done. The more men we send, the more will come back safe and sound. The way to save American lives is to offer American lives with prodigal hands...
...better chance to become practiced in the art than now. Not only is it possible to secure training oneself, but also to find out how it is done, with a view to instructing others later on. By gaining his knowledge today, the officer of tomorrow will be so much quicker and better equipped to secure his commission. Far more than recreation, military value is an important reason to bring out a large number of candidates...
...part either of the members of the faculty or of speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world. The trustees of Columbia, as of other colleges, fail to realize...
Coach Winsor gave the hockey squad a light workout yesterday afternoon in anticipation of the second Yale game to be played tomorrow night. For the first fifteen minutes the forwards were sent down the ice in lines against five backs in order to develop quicker and surer passing than they have been showing recently. This was followed by a short fifteen minute scrimmage between the regulars and a scrub team composed of the B. A. A. backs and the second string forwards, who distinguished themselves by scoring two goals while the University seven was unable to secure one. The second...
...game by this method of attack, yet has not completed a forward pass against Brown for three years, while Harvard has been very successful against us with her passing game. The Yale line is heavier and has more power than Harvard and ought to be able to offset the quicker charge of the Crimson line. Defensively, this weight and power advantage ought to be a great asset to Yale, provided the men are not given too explicit instructions to watch some individual star on the Harvard team. Personally, I believe in a space defence where every man covers a certain...