Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
Both the American and French officers in charge of the instruction of the University Training Corps commented yesterday upon the rapid strides that have been made in the drilling of the Unit since the beginning of intensive training. Not only are the regular companies displaying much better formations, but the provisional companies as well are being put into shape...
...benefit of the French Tuberculosis War Victims' Fund and the Edith Wharton War Charities. All the money raised will be divided equally between these two organizations and far the greater part of it will be used to alleviate the suffering which has been caused in France by the rapid spread of tuberculosis. This plague has been greatly increased by the importation of the disease from the German prison camps by those French soldiers who have returned and brought it to their families in France...
...annual report of the University Library indicates rapid growth under increasing difficulties. More than forty thousand volumes have been added to its shelves, swelling the total to nearly two million and placing it among the greatest collections of books in the world. Yet with this encouraging progress there has not come the corresponding increase of dependable resources which are necessary in carrying forward the work from year to year...
...will do upon the declaration of war has been given out semi-officially. Although the attitude and spirit of our people will change, no one need think that the Government, educational institutions and business concerns will be suddenly turned upside down. With Congress meeting early in April and the rapid development of the international situation, a declaration of war seems certain in the near future. As soon as the decision is made, the authorities will probably allow all men enrolled in any branch of the Naval Reserve to leave College at once and report to their designated stations. Naturally this...