Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who was present at the meeting of the University Board of Overseers yesterday, decided after an inspection of the Cambridge Common and two other sites for the new buildings of the Radio School, soon to be erected, that the rapid growth of the school would necessitate the taking over of all the available land by the Government. He was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N., commandant of the First Naval District, and Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, commandant of the Naval...
...given up hope. The large submarine sinking claimed at times by the British, and the constant precautions to convoy vessels show the imperial shipyards can still turn out a large fleet. We doubt, however, if German efficiency will be as effective as Henry Ford's experience, when rapid work is to be done...
...class which would normally receive its diplomas in June. In the University, also, the same intensified schedule will soon result in an early graduation. The call for doctors to maintain the health of men in this country and heal the wounds of those at the front necessitates rapid but always thorough training...
...will be the best game seen in New England this year. The Navy team has already showed its prowess to the Informals whose goal line it crossed twice in rapid succession, the Army team is built and picked by Haughton. On paper the bluejackets seem unbeatable but so had Yale for many years until Haughton's men attacked them. The Navy material is all from All-New England; with Murray, Cannell, Enwright and Casey as a backfield the Ayer linesmen are in for a busy afternoon. It will be a game marked by brilliancy, speed and fumbles...
...trouble, and organize society so that a large part of our time and energy will not be wasted in making compensation for sins of omission. Even before the present crisis there were many serious problems to be facade; startling increase in insanity, the commission of crimes, and the rapid multiplication of persons with unstable temperaments and character...